William Ormsby

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

William AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Ormsby AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Wiremu Omipi AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/465 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Maniapoto, Māori AWMM

Whānautanga mai

6 Dec 1876 Public source

Wāhi Whānau

Pirongia

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 June 2024 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/273F-R6K/william-ormsby-1876-1929

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Robert Ormsby & Rangihurihia Te Raaku

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 June 2024 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/273F-R6K/william-ormsby-1876-1929

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Otorohanga, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Messrs. Howarth and Arrowsmith, Solicitors, Otorohanga, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
• 1920 William ORMSBY married Ngamo ROA
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 June 2024 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/273F-R6K/william-ormsby-1876-1929

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/465 AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Blacksmith/Civilian 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

Tuhinga hauora

Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Matenga

16 Oct 1929 Public source

Pānui Matenga

The death has occurred, after an illness, of William Ormsby, youngest son of the late Robert Ormsby, Senr., who was well known in the King Country. The deceased was a brother of the late John Ormsby, who died some two years ago. The late Mr. W. Ormsby was formerly in business in Te Kuiti in partnership with the late Jeremiah Ormsby. He saw service in the war, and on his return here took up farming. He leaves a wife and two sons. A tangi will be held at Puketotara, near Pirongia, where the body is being taken, and where the family ancestral burying ground is situated.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 June 2024 - KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE, VOLUME XXIII, ISSUE 3067, 17 OCTOBER 1929, PAGE 5

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• WWI Roll of Honour, Ngāti Maniapoto's Memorial Flag Pole, Te Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kūiti AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21382704
  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

• 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: 554
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• 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.