Whiti Eruera

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Whiti AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Eruera AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• White AWMM
• Eruera White AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 16/580 AWMM
• WWI 16/580A AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Te Whanau a Apanui, Māori AWMM
• Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngā Iwi o Ara Tāwhao, Ara Tāwhao, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

4 Mar 1893 AWMM

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Harawera Eruera, of Raukokore

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 28 Jun 1915 AWMM Raukokore, Thames, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

E. Harawira (father), Raukokore, via Opotiki, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 18 Sep 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• Messines AWMM
• Egyptian, Egyptian EF & Western European
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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• 2nd NZ Maori Contingent
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Nama Hōia

• WWI 16/580 AWMM
• WWI 16/580A AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1915-1917

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Mētara me ngā Tohu

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• Plaque & Scroll # 503864
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Te urunga

WW1 28 Jun 1915 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM
Bushman/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 18 Sep 1915-26 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 29 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Private AWMM 2nd Maori Contingent AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 9 1/4 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  13 stone AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Arrived Suez on 26 October 1915

Whiti Eruera was the son of Harawera Eruera also known as Eruera Harawera, of Raukokore, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141. Archives New Zealand record number as 16/580A

Next of Kin: Mr H. Eruera, Raukekori, Bay of Plenty (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Opotiki War Memorial

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM
• St Mary's Church Memorial Board, Tikitiki near Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  http://www.cwgc.org
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21001231
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130601.html
  Further Reference
• 'Tikitiki church war memorial ', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/tikitiki-church-war-memorial, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 29-Oct-2014
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tikitiki-church-war-memorial
  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 at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  https://archive.org/details/newzealandatfron00lond/newzealandatfron00lond
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  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. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 217
• 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.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.