Waru Davie

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Waru AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Davie AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Waru Davie REWI

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Nama Hōia

WWI 19940 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

25th January 1894

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Wāhi Whānau

Auckland

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of David Kiekie and Mary Davie Rewi

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Uri kiritahi

WW1 Davie Kiekie (father), Tauranga, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19940 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 15 Aug 1917-02 Oct 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 92 AWMM Vessel was Ruahine AWMM Private AWMM 21st Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Next of Kin: Mrs A. Davie, Tauranga (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

27 Aug 1920 AWMM

Pakeke i te matenga

26yrs

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Wāhi Mate

Tauranga

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Ingoa o te urupā

Maungatapu (Waitaia) Māori Cemetery, Tauranga

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Pānui Matenga

Waru Davie Rewi was born in Auckland on 25 January 1894, and identified as Ngāpuhi. His parents were David and Mary Davie Rewi. It is most likely that Waru was the older brother of fellow soldier Para Davy Rewi (1896-1918) who died at the 45th Casualty Clearing Station in France on 8 November 1918 from bronchial pneumonia. Waru was a farmer at Te Puke and a Hauraki Regiment Volunteer. He enlisted to serve during World War I on 18 May 1917 from Tauranga. Waru would serve with the New Zealand Māori Pioneer Battalion, Canterbury Regiment (Service No. WWI 19940). His last rank was Private and he served on the Western Front during 1917 and 1918. Whilst in France he was admitted to hospital on 29 January 1918 suffering from bronchitis followed by pneumonia. On 17 May 1918 Waru was sent to England and discharged from war service, deemed 'no longer physically fit for war service on account of illness contracted on active service'. He spent time at the New Zealand General Hospital at Brockenhurst. Waru embarked for New Zealand on 11 October 1918, transferring to the Hospital Ship 'Marama'. He spent time as an out-patient in Tauranga before transferring to Te Waikato Sanatorium near Cambridge. Private Waru Davie Rewi died in Tauranga from tuberculosis on 27 August 1920, at the age of 26. Waru is believed to be buried in the Waitaia Urupā at Maungatapu in Tauranga where a memorial headstone has been erected for him. Bio by Debbie McCauley (10 December 2014).

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

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

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20995537
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130852.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643251/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643251
  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

• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  70: 31
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• 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.
• HMNZT 92. Fresh tracks, or, The wake of the wanderers. (1917). London: Printed by Cassell & Company.