Puaka Whitau

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Puaka AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Whitau AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Puaka Whitau AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/188 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

3rd May 1893 or # April 1893

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 February 2025 - Military record

Wāhi Whānau

Te Muka

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 February 2025 - Military record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Teone and Ratira Whitau, of Temuka, Southland

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 February 2025 - Military record

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• Unknown AWMM Tuahiwi, New Zealand AWMM
• Tuahine
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 February 2025 - Military record

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Miria Kemara (aunt), Temuka, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/188 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM A Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of disease AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Maori Contingent AWMM

Son of Teone and Ratira Whitau, of Temuka, Southland, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs T. Whitau, Hillgrove, Otago (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

10 Oct 1915 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Wāhi Mate

Pinwood Sanatorium, Surrey, England

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 February 2025 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/puaka-whitau

Te momo matenga

Died of Disease AWMM

Urupā

Wokingham (St Sebastian) Churchyard, Heathlands Road, Nine Mile Ride, Wokingham Berkshire England AWMM Special Plot 1 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

WHITAU, Puaka - WW1 16/188 - NZEF Army Pauka Whitau was born to Teone and Ratira Whitau from Temuka 3rd April 1893. He spent his early years at the Maori Pa at Temuka. raised by Mr Harry Kahu. He enlisted on 29th Sept. 1914 in Tuahiwi where he was working as a labourer. He departed NZ with the Maori Battalion on the Warimoo and disembarked at Suez, Egypt. They then moved to Malta for garrison duty. On 14th August he was at "Anzac" sick and was transported to Malta until 29th August diagnosed with diarrheoa and chronic bronchitis and evacuated to England onboard the HMS Oxfordshire. Admitted to Bethnal Green Hospital 5th Sept. where he was diagnosed with pulmonary TB and transferred to Pinwood Sanatorium in Surrey where he died on 10th Oct. 1915 of bronchitis and was buried in the St. Sebastian Churchyard Cemetery in Workingham, Surrey at age 22

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 February 2025 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/puaka-whitau

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22018337
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130831.html
  Further Reference
• SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
  https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=2424
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/649253/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/649253
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 771
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.