William Tutepuaki Pitt

Taitara

Staff Sergeant Major

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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

William Tutepuaki AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Pitt AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Billy AWMM
• Wiremu Tutepuaki Pitt
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Nama Hōia

• 98 AWMM
• 16/499 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Porou, Ngā Iwi o Horouta, Horouta, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Pono

Anglican

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Rā i whānau mai ai

1877

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Wāhi Whānau

Gisborne, NZ

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of Major Chowell Dean Pitt & Maata Te Owai

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• Unknown AWMM Unknown AWMM
• Unknown AWMM 18 Selwyn Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

Native Lands Commission/Civilian AWMM

Uri kiritahi

• Mr C. Dean Pitt, Gisborne Club, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs E.R. Pitt (wife), C/o W. Rogers, Ohinemutu, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 21 Oct 1899 AWMM Single AWMM
• 1908 AWMM Married AWMM
  Katherine Rangikawhiti Rogers AWMM
• 5 Jan 1909 married Katherine Rangikawhiti Rogers
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Pakanga

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• Relief of Kimberley AWMM
• Paardeberg AWMM
• Driefontein AWMM
• 24 May 1900-31 May 1902 AWMM Transvaal AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• NZ Mounted Rifles
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Nama Hōia

• 98 AWMM
• 16/499 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• SA War = 1899-1902; WWI 1914-1920
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• 1st & 8th NZ Contingent
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Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Queen's South Africa Medal AWMM
• King's South Africa Medal (South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 clasps) AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Te urunga

• South Africa Clerk AWMM
• WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
• SA War: 1st Contingent: October 1899
  8th Contingent: 21 Jan 1902 at Wellington
  WWI: 26 Oct 1914 at W
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

1st cngt: 22 yrs; 8th Cngt: 24 yrs; WWI: 37 yrs

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

• South Africa Vessel was Waiwera AWMM Private AWMM 1st New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 1 Company AWMM 1st Contingent AWMM
• WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Captain/Military AWMM B Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM
• SA War 8th Cngt: 1 Feb 1902 on the troopship Surrey
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Tuhinga hauora

Other, WWI AWMM
Nature of Injury: Heart disease Pension: 10/- Percent of disability: [Not stated] Source: New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

• South Africa Lieutenant/Military AWMM
  New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 1st Contingent AWMM
• WW1 Captain/Military AWMM
  New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Matenga

1 Jun 1937 AWMM
Age  60 AWMM

Wāhi Mate

Gisborne, NZ

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Tuhipoka mō te matenga

16/499 Capt W.T. PITT. Maori Pioneer Battalion. died 1-6-1937

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Urupā

Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road, Gisborne District, New Zealand AWMM Block S Plot 94 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

OBITUARY

CAPTAIN W.T. PITT

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, ;This Day.

The death occurred on his sixtieth birthday of Captain W. T. Pitt, a leading member of the Maori race. Captain Pitt served with the First New Zealand Contingent in the Boer War, and on the outbreak of the Great War joined the first Maori contingent, seeing service on Gallipoli and in France. In recent years he was a Maori welfare officer under the Native Department, taking a prominent part'in land development schemes. In his earlier years Captain Pitt was a prominent footballer, and was captain of the Poverty Bay,fteam for several, seasons. Latterly lie was a member of .the Maori Rugby Advisory Board.

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

Gisborne's SA Boer War Memorial - refer to document attached, 'Gisborne Boys in SA Boer War'

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

War Memorial Theatre, 159 Bright Street, Gisborne AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Cemetery Records. Gisborne District Council.
  http://www.gdc.govt.nz/cemetery-record-search/
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20801688
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880673
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
  Further Reference
• CAPTAIN PITT'S RETURN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13895, 19 January 1916, Page 4
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19160119.2.26
  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

• St Clair Inglis, A. (c1902). Souvenir Album of the first New Zealand Contingent South African War. Auckland, N.Z.: Arthur Cleave & Co.
• Stowers, R. (1992). Kiwi versus Boer : the First New Zealand Mounted Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 585
• Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road, Gisborne District, New Zealand
  Cemetery register no. 3143
• McGibbon, I.C. & Crawford, J. A.B. (c2003). One flag, one queen, one tongue : New Zealand, the British Empire and the South African War, 1899-1902. Auckland University Press, Auckland, N.Z.
  p.125
• New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100%, compiled from returns supplied by the Commissioner of Pensions, in respect to: a) Permanent War Pensions, and from returns supplied by the Director-General of Medical Services, regarding: b) Discharged and undischarged hospital patients, assessed as suffering permanent disability, but not yet in receipt of a pension at date (28-4-20). New Zealand. Director-General of Medical Services. NZ Times Co. (Printer).
• 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.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.