Harry Ernest Oppenheim
I mate atu i te 29 Nov 1900
- Nama Hōia
- South African 3006 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Openneim AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Trooper AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 2nd Contingent AWMM
- Pakanga
- South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
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- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- Ernest Oppenheim (father) AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Unknown AWMM Single AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- South Africa AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- South African 3006 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- One year with E Battery in Christchurch AWMM
- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
- Queen's South Africa Medal (Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen clasps) AWMM
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- South Africa 23 Apr 1900 AWMM
Age 19 AWMM
Farm hand/Civilian AWMM - Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- South Africa Vessel was Undaunted AWMM Trooper AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles AWMM 2nd Contingent AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- Trooper AWMM
New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 2nd Contingent AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Harry was the son of Ernest Oppenheim and Helen Kate Oppenheim of Leithfield. Ernest was the proprietor of the local pub. He was one of thirteen children, two of whom were born after Harry was killed. He put his age up by a year or so when enlisting. He also recorded that he had previous military experience with E Battery. His employer was Mr Gorrie at Sefton, north of Christchurch.
The fighting in which Oppenheim died took place at Rhenoster Kop about forty miles east of Pretoria. Making their way to Eerste Fabricken, where they spent two days, they came in contact with the Boers on 26 November. They kept up a running fight until 29 November. The description of the action on that day in New Zealanders and the Boer War suggests fierce fighting with high casualties. It reads:
'The first man hit was Farrier-Sergeant Smith (Second Contingent), mortally; then Oppenheim. MacBride carried Oppenheim out of the fire, only to get hit himself. Captain Crawshaw, then dangerously wounded, was attended by Hill, Beath and Foreman dropping. Hill ran to them, and was shot badly through both hips himself. Sergeant Henderson then carried Hill out of the zone of fire. Meanwhile Corporal Stephens was going backwards and forwards carrying ammunition through the rain of bullets.' (p. 90)
An account of the circumstances surrounding Trooper Oppenheimer's death appears in The New Zealand Herald, 3 January 1901.
Originally his grave was at Reitfontein Farm near the battle site at which he died. He is now buried at the Diamond Hill Garden of Remembrance.
Name transcribed as Openneim on the Marker at Diamond Hill for those killed at Rhenoster Kop and reburied at Diamond Hill
Father was named Ernest Oppenheim.
Name incorrectly spelt as Opperheim on South African Roll of Honour at Auckland War Memorial Museum. AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 29 Nov 1900 AWMM
- Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Diamond Hill Garden of Remembrance, Donkerhoek, South Africa AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
- Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 3 or 4 January 1901 AWMM
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Ranfurly Veterans' Home, 539 Mount Albert Road, Three Kings, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Memorial plaque, 2nd New Zealand Contingent, Boer War 1900, Ranfurly Veterans' Home, Auckland AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, South African War Memorial 1899 - 1902 AWMM
Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Sources Used - New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
Further Reference - Gauteng, Cullinan district, Donkerhoek, Diamond Hill, Military Cemetery
http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=655934
Further Reference - Ranfurly Veterans' Home. Opening ceremony to-day. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 294, 10 December 1903, Page 5
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19031210.2.26&srpos
Further Reference
- Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
- Ngā tuhinga
- Stowers, R. (1992). Kiwi versus Boer : the First New Zealand Mounted Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
- Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand.
Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 1901. H.6E - Hawson, S. E. (1907). New Zealanders and the Boer War : or, Soldiers from the land of the moa. Christchurch, N.Z.: Gordon Gotch.
- The New Zealand Herald
Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 3 or 4 January 1901 - Information kindly provided by family
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