Heta Wawatai

Taitara

Private

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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Heta AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Wawatai AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 20758 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England

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Whānautanga mai

Mar 1883 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

March 1883

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Wāhi Whānau

Waiapu, East Coast

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Tokomaru Bay

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Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

• Patient in Cook Hospital, then transferred to King George Military Hospital in Rotorua
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• trained as Wood carver
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Uri kiritahi

Mrs Rawinia Terapu (mother), Hicks Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Western European

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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• 8th NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Nama Hōia

WWI 20758 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1916-1917

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Mētara me ngā Tohu

British War & Victory Medals
Eligible for Plaque & Scroll (# not declared on record)

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Te urunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM
• 24 June 1916 at Narrow Neck Camp
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

23yrs

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Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka

Freezing worker at Waima, Tokomaru Bay

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Private AWMM 8th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

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

Next of Kin: Miss M. Wawatai, Hicks Bay, Gisborne (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

20 Jul 1922 AWMM

Wāhi Mate

TB Shelters, Auckland

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Te momo matenga

Tuberculous

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Tuhipoka mō te matenga

Suffered from tuberculous pleurisy - Buried under the name HETA WAIWATAI

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Ingoa o te urupā

Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland

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Tohutoro kōhatu urupā

Soldiers Burial B Row 2, Plot 55

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• St Mary's Church Memorial Board, Tikitiki near Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22017165
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130891.html
  Further Reference
• 'Tikitiki church war memorial ', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/tikitiki-church-war-memorial, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 29-Oct-2014
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tikitiki-church-war-memorial
  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.
  41: 40
• 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.
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.