August Wakaiti Rawiri

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

August Wakaiti AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Rawiri AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Rawhiri AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/1273 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1895

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Wāhi Whānau

TE HAROTO

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 June 2025 - Military Record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Rawiri Te Ahu. Born at Te Haroto, Hawke's Bay

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Uri kiritahi

Te Ahu Rawiri (father), Te Harota, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 16/1273 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 42 or HMNZT 43 or HMNZT 44 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua AWMM Private AWMM A Company AWMM 3rd Maori Contingent AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

August Rawiri was the son of Rawiri Te Ahu. Born at Te Haroto, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Served on the Western Front, 1916-17.

Surname appears as Rawiri in Nominal Rolls and CWGC, as Rawhiri in Archives New Zealand

Next of Kin: Mr Te Ahu Rawiri, Te Haroto, Taupo (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

23 Aug 1918 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Ingoa o te urupā

Waiohiki Urupā, Waiohiki, Hastings

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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/R20804323
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130880.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643633/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643633
  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

• 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. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  25: 2
• 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. 4: Includes portrait
• 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.