Thomas Wi

Taitara

Gunner - Private

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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Thomas AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Wi AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Tamati Waaka Nene Te Wehiwehi Wirapakio AWMM
• Tamati Waka Nene Wirepa
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Nama Hōia

WWI 16/486 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngā Puhi, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Maniapoto, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England

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Whānautanga mai

1892 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

1892

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Wāhi Whānau

Te Kuiti

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of Michael Te Wehi Wehi Wirepakio and Rangiahua Hetet

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Wi Kio, Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Egyptian & Egyptian E.F. & Western European - France

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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• 1st NZ Maori Pioneer Contingent & NZ Field Artillery Division Ammunition in France
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Nama Hōia

WWI 16/486 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1914-1919

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Mētara me ngā Tohu

1914-1915 Star
British War & Victory Medals

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Te urunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM
• 19 October 1914 at Avondale, NZ
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

23 yrs

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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

1918 In France, he was badly wounded in both his legs and feet by a shell blast

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Te tūnga whakamutunga

Gunner

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Matenga

15 Jul 1978 Public Source

Rā i mate ai

15 July 1978

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Pakeke i te matenga

86 yrs

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Wāhi Mate

Te Kuiti, NZ

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Pānui Matenga

After the war Thomas was allocated a War Pension due to the severity of his wounds. He would end up wearing special metal leg braces and shoes to enable him to walk and would carry the pain of those wounds for the rest of his life. He would go on to marry and have a family of five children. He is remembered by his family for his large vegetable gardens and the large eels he often caught and smoked. He is also remembered for his musical abilities, joining the Te Kuiti Municipal Band after the war and also being an excellent Mandolin player. He is fondly remembered as playing the last post on his bugle at the funerals of a couple of his brothers, so it was sad for the family when the local RSA played a recording of it at his own funeral. He passed away in 1978, having lived a full life in spite of his severe war wounds, reaching the age of 85 years old.

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

WWI Roll of Honour, Ngāti Maniapoto's Memorial Flag Pole, Te Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kūiti AWMM

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22019014
  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: 776
• Turner, A. (1982). Turner Reunion 9th -11th April 1982. Hangatiki, N.Z.: Sutherland Print.
  Photograph in Turner Reunion Book, pub 1982.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Roa, T., Paki, M., & Pūrekireki Marae. (2015). Maiea te tupua : whānau accounts of Waikato-Maniapoto World War One veterans and one conscriptee : commemorating 100 years of World War One. Pirongia : Pūrekireki Marae.
• McClintock, K., Turner, K., Searancke, M., Manawaiti, S., Meredith, P. (2024). Ngāti Maniapoto Ope Taua 1914 – 1918.
• 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.