Rikihana Carkeek

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Rikihana AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Carkeek AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Rikihaua AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/256 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Raukawa ki Te Tonga, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngā Iwi o Tainui, Tainui, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1890 AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

23 March 1890

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Wāhi Whānau

OTAKA

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Morgan CARKEEK & Raita RIKIHANA

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM 304 Tinakori Road, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

Farmer & interpreter for the Maori Land Court

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Uri kiritahi

Maraea Rikihana, Otaki, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
• Rikihana Carkeek married Pareraukawa Atkinson in Otaki
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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/256 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Clerk 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

His memoirs were published in 2003 as 'Home little Maori home : a memoir of the Maori contingent 1914-1916'

His sons Maukiao Carkeek (804674) and Rikihana Carkeek (27441) both saw active serive in WW2 (Public source 6/01/2015)

Wounded Gallipoli, returned to Gallipoli. Injured France, fractured leg, hosp UK, influenza, returned NZ SS Westmoreland. AWMM

Matenga

1963 AWMM
Age  72 AWMM

Rā i mate ai

26/01/1963

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Wāhi Mate

OTAKI

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Ingoa o te urupā

Otaki Cemetery, Kapiti Coast

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Tohutoro kōhatu urupā

Block RSA Plot 146

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Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21892192
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History video
  http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/video/rikihana-carkeek-great-war-story
  Further Reference
• Cairns, Puawai (7 August 2015). “Carry on, boys” – The stories of Friday Hawkins and Rikihana Carkeek. Part Two: Rikihana Carkeek. Te Papa Blog.
  https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2015/08/07/carry-on-boys-the-stories-of-friday-hawkins-and-rikihana-carkeek-part-two-rikihana-carkeek/
  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: 111
• 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. 2: Includes portrait
• Carkeek, R. (2003). Home little Maori home : a memoir of the Maori contingent 1914-1916. Wellington, N.Z.: Totika Publications.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Iwi, Hapū, Rohe and additional whakapapa information kindly provided from “Ngāti Raukawa and 20th century wars. Ngā Pakanga o Te Ao. Participation, Price, and Post-War Experience.” Research conducted by Te Kenehi Teira and Heeni Collins (2022). Report commissioned by Crown Forestry Rental Trust, Wellington (Wai 2200 Porirua ki Manawatu Inquiry).
• 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.