Whetu Tauri

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Whetu AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Tauri AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/386 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Te Rarawa, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Hinekura, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Hauā, Ngā Iwi o Tainui, Tainui, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Hinemihi (Ngāti Tūwharetoa), Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngā Iwi o Te Arawa, Te Arawa, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Whānautanga mai

8 Aug 1894 AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

8th August 1894

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Wāhi Whānau

Wanganui East

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Hoani & Hiko TAURI

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Te Aute College, Pukehou, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Hoani Tauri (father), Putiki, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
• 1917 Whetu TAURI married Susie Tuihana MITCHELL
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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/386 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Clerk AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

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

Tuhinga hauora

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of heart failure. Not caused by his military service. AWMM

Next of Kin: Mr H. Tauri, Putiki, Wanganui (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

28 Mar 1921 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of Disease AWMM

Urupā

Waikumete Cemetery & Crematorium Glen Eden, Auckland Council, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Wesley Division C, Row 20, Plot 20 AWMM

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/R7824003
  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
• Tuitupou, Lineni (8 September 2026). Whānau to honour WWI soldier buried in unmarked grave. Te Ao Māori News.
  https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/09/08/whanau-seek-to-honour-wwi-soldier-buried-in-unmarked-grave/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 711
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• 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.