John Harper
I whānau mai i te 30 Apr 1889
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 20618 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- John AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Harper AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWI 20618 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 30 Apr 1889 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- WW1 Mrs Emily Harper (mother), Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Pacific Islands AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 20618 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
- New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF), Rarotongan Contingent AWMM
Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 Storekeeper/Civilian AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW1 19 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 61 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Maxilla/cheek. Treated at The Queen's Hospital "Frognal", Sidcup. AWMM - Other, WWI AWMM
Nature of injury: G.S.W. face (self inflicted) and T.B. Lung Pension: [Not stated] Percent: 70 Source: New Zealand. Army (c.1920). A further list of the names of ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% AWMM
- Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Enlisted 9 May 1916 and embarked in Wellington 19 August 1916 to disembark in Devonport, United Kingdom 25 October 1916. Admitted to the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch 27 October 1916 until 12 November 1916. Left for France 9 January 1917 and on 14 January 1917 he was admitted to the 20th General Hospital. In 1917 he had numerous admissions to a variety of medical facilities for illness. Transferred to the Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918. Embarked for Egypt 5 June 1918 and arrived at Alexandra 14 June 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 1 July 1918 and admitted to the 33rd Casualty Clearing Station at Jaffa on 2 August 1918 with malaria, transferred to 24th Stationary Hospital 3 August 1918 then 24th Stationary Hospital, Abbassia on 5 August 1918. Discharged Aotea Convalescent Home 18 August 1918. On 10 October 1918 he sustained a GSW (Guns Shot Wound) to the left side of his face and jaw, and was admitted to 76th Casualty Clearing Station at Ludd. Captain Bush's monthly report said this was a suicide attempt and left him with a "very severe wounds to head". Returned as an invalid on SS Malta and on board a Court of Enquiry found that this wound was self inflicted. He was certified as not fit to stand trial by Court Martial. In September 1919 he was a patient at the Woodside Jaw Hospital, Dunedin, and then the orthopaedic ward of Trentham Military Camp Hospital. He returned to Tonga 6 January 1922. His name appears on the Tongan War Memorial as Hapa. AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
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- Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
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- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
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- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16791843
Further Reference - NB: Content may disturb - Watercolour of Private Harper (4 October 1919). Artist: possibly Herbert Cole. MS0513/2/2/39. The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Museums and Archives.
http://surgicat.rcseng.ac.uk/Details/archive/110009798
Further Reference - Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
38: 40 - Liava'a, C. (2011). Koe Kau To'a Na'anau Poletu: valiant volunteers - soldiers from Tonga in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Polygraphia.
- New Zealand. Army (c.1920). A further list of the names of 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 hospital patients; assessed as suffering permanent disability, and who are whilst in hospital, receiving full pensions. New Zealand. Director-General of Medical Services.
- Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
- 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.
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