Tuhitaare Wi Repa

Taitara

Private

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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Tuhitaare AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Wi Repa AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Wirepa AWMM
• Charlie WIREPA or WI REPA
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Nama Hōia

WWI 16/109 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

Church of England

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Whānautanga mai

1879 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

1879

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Wāhi Whānau

Te Kaha, Eastern BOP

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of Ropiha (or Eruera) Wi Repa and his wife, Wahawaha Terehia (aka Apanui)

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• Unknown AWMM Te Kaha, New Zealand AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM

Uri kiritahi

• Dr Tutere Wi Repa, Te Araroa, New Zealand AWMM
• brother - Dr Tutere Wi Repa
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Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
• Pre 06 May 1916 AWMM Unknown Marital Status AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Egyptian & Egyptian E F & Western European

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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Nama Hōia

WWI 16/109 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1914-1918

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Mētara me ngā Tohu

1914-1915 Star
British War & Victory Medals

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Te urunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM
• 1 Oct 1914 at Opotiki
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

35 yrs

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM B Company AWMM Not known AWMM
• WW1 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
  HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Private AWMM 4th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Died from Natural Causes, Cause of Death AWMM
• Aug 1915 SGW to hand, invalided home; Feb 1916 returned to duty
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Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private

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SuppNom: Ex 1st Maori Contingent. AWMM

Matenga

25 May 1942 Public Source

Rā i mate ai

25 May 1942

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Pakeke i te matenga

68 yrs

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Wāhi Mate

Opotiki, BOP NZ

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Te momo matenga

Died from Natural Causes AWMM

Pānui Matenga

ELDERLY MAN'S FATE (P.A.) OPOTIKI, this day. While crossing the Opotiki River during the evening, Mr. Charlie Wi Repa, aged 66, single, was accidentally drowned. The deceased apparently reached the opposite shore and overbalanced when stepping from a boat. People heard a splash and saw hands above the water. The body has not yet been recovered. The deceased was ai brother of Dr. Wi Repa, of Te Araroa, and Mr. Rome Wi Repa, of Matamata.

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Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22021510
  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

• HMNZT 52.The bugle call of the 12th NZ Reinforcements : being the souvenir number of The Mokoia chronicle.(1916). On board ship: Published on board H.M.N.Z. Transport no. 52 "S.S. Mokoia".
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 795
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  31: 26
• 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.