Joseph Curtis

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Joseph AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Curtis AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19459 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Catholic, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

14 Apr 1896 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 18 Sep 1916 AWMM 24 England Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Thomas Curtis (father), Levuka, Fiji, Pacific Islands AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 02 Apr 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19459 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• Levuka Defence Force AWMM
• Canterbury Regiment, C Company AWMM
• 4th Canterbury Regiment, C Company AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 18 Sep 1916 AWMM Engine driver/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 02 Apr 1917-10 Jun 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 80 AWMM Vessel was Corinthic AWMM Private AWMM 15th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Black AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 8 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  146 pounds AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  dark half caste Fijian AWMM
• Other, Unknown Period AWMM
  keloid scars after vaccination AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  7 October 1917, mortally wounded in action gunshot wound left arm, right hand, forehead and abdomen AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Matenga

8 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM Plot 20, Row I, Grave 8A 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/R20994729
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Casualty form.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20180129035740/http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:12445
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Casualty form.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20180129035740/http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:12445
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130589.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/433114/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/433114
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/955
  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
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  57: 38
• 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
• Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
• 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.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• HMNZT 80. Tiki-talk / edited by A. Allen, S.D. Waters and J. Carmody ; artist, Gordon Calman. (1917). London: Printed and published by the Angus Printing Co. for the executive committee of Tiki-talk.