Richard Eric Hale

I whānau mai i te 10 Sept 1892 - I mate atu i te 14 Aug 1917

Nama Hōia: WWI 16/5 AWMM
Ingoa kārangaranga: Dick AWMM
Eric AWMM
Te Ope o Tū / te peka: Army AWMM
1st NZ Maori Contingent
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Te tūnga whakamutunga: WW1 Sergeant AWMM New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM
Pakanga: World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

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Richard Eric Hale — New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624. Cultural Permissions may apply. Cultural Permissions Apply

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Pakanga: World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
Kauhanga riri: Egyptian - Gallipoli, Egyptian E F & Western European
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Te Ope o Tū / te peka: Army AWMM
1st NZ Maori Contingent
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Nama Hōia: WWI 16/5 AWMM
Urunga ki te ope taua: 1914-1917
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Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga: —

Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua

Mētara me ngā Tohu: 1914-1915 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu

Whakangungu ope taua: Senior Cadets
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Branch Trade Proficiency: —
Te urunga: WW1 Unknown AWMM
Age 18 AWMM
15 Nov 1915 at Avondale
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga: 22 yrs 1mth
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Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka: Labourer
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka

Taipitopito ekenga waka: WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM B Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Whakapapa hauora

Tuhinga hauora: Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana

Te tūnga whakamutunga: WW1 Sergeant AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga: —

Kōrero taurongo

Son of William Frederic and Annie Gertrude Hale

Four sons went to war William Fredrick Hale (43121) the eldest; Harold Hale (12781); Nathaniel Hale (16/1486) all three survived the war; Eric Hale (16/5) was killed in action

His niece wrote: "his mother was very proud of Dick's scholastic achievements as one of the first intake of boarders at Gisborne Boy's High School where he matriculated and achieved the fifth highest pass marks in New Zealand that year. He was then offered employment in the Head Office of the Department of Statistics, Wellington which he found uncongenial so resigned, unbeknown to his mother and secured a scrub-cutting contract in Nelson, employed a gang of Maori boys to work for him then when War was declared he gathered his work force and shipped them back to Wellington where he enlisted them all in the Pioneer Battalion. Confirmation of this would appear to be verified by the sequence of regimental numbers adjacent to his, many of whom came from his locality and saw action in Gallipoli.

When Dick's older brother Nat arrived in France he served with the same company as his brother. He wrote of his brother's death to his mother."

The Auckland Museum Library's manuscripts collection holds three letters written by Dick Hale back home to his sister 'Janey' in New Zealand. [Ref. MS 2010/7]

Enlisted as Dick presumed to be Richard but family note his real name was Eric. Increased age to enlist

Next of Kin: Mrs A. G. Hale, Tologa Bay, Gisborne (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM
NZ Maori Battalion
IN A TIGHT CORNER.
HOW LIEUT. KAIPARA. AND HIS COMRADES FELL.
Corporal Walter Heany, of the N.Z. Pioneers, writing to his mother, Mrs. Donald Gordon, of Gisborne, gives the first details that have been received respecting the death of Lieut A.P Kaipara and a number of other East Coast members of the Pioneers. The writer explains that the battalion went out wiring a stronghold that the New Zealanders had taken from the Germans. Fritz had made things very warm for them since, Corporal Heany remarks. The Pioneers got to within 100 yards of where they had to erect the entanglements, when Fritz opened up on them. The boys halted for it awhile, and then moved through shell fire to their sector. Shells were thrown all around them, and machine gun fire was turned on, this being about 1.3O a.m. The writer, details the circumstances under which Bill Morris, of Gisborne (wounded), was carried out to, the dressing station. On the way back they were up to their waists in mud, and Fritz concentrated fire on them, thus delaying them a good deal. The shells were bashing in the trenches and ploughing through the mud in the shell fire was a trying experience. Patience, however, got them through safely, though they were all fairly exhausted. Lieut. Kaipara rushed along and requested them 'to go back for Ehau, another Gisbornite who was wounded in the leg. As there was no one else he and his mate went back again with Kaipara. They were fairly beaten, and shells were falling worse than ever. Kaipara kept urging them to hurry, but they were so done up they could hardly for dear life lift their legs out of the boggy ground. Frequently they had to put the stretcher down, and then shells would burst near them, the concussion knocking them over in the mud. Eventually his mate dragged himself back to get fresh men, and he could hear Ehau calling "Come on, Heany" but he was completely knocked up. It was then that Kaipara dropped, shot through the head by a piece of shell. The writer went on to say that he had simply to lie down in the mud with the pathetic words still ringing in his ears and cursing himself for being unable to carry on. Subsequently he managed to drag himself out and to get fresh men to carry the wounded out. Two nights later they went out again to dig a trench and about midnight Fritz poured shells into them again. One shell came into the trench and killed Viv Ruru and another chap who had just joined up, besides wounding Trotter and Maharangi Pohatu. Heany was placed in charge to carry Trotter down to the dressing station, where he learned than Kaa, the Ngati Porou officer was killed, also Winiana and Dick Hale (corporal of the section). The party was carrying out one of the fellows (killed), when a shell landed right in the middle of them. With an officer, the writer went back and found their bodies, which were brought in and laid to rest. All were Gisborne and Coast boys. Donald Cameron was killed the same night as Kaipara. The casualties during the two nights were Killed, Lieutenants P Kaa, Kaipara, Cameron, and MacNeil, Corporal Hale, Privates V. Ruru, Kopua, Winiana.
wounded: - Lieutenant J Ehau, Privates R. Trotter. W. Morris, Manuel, M. Pohatu, and P Kingi
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His elder brother of Cpl Maku Hale (#16/96) Sergeant Richard Hale, Regimental No 16/5 also of Tolaga Bay and B Company 1st Maori Contingent fought along side his young brother Maku, and went on (after Maku being wounded 1916) to see further actions in France at Messines and in Belgium on the Ypres Salient where he was killed in action their on the 14th of August 1917.
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