Pua Kihi

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Pua AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Kihi AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Pita Puarau Kihi Maihi AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 20844 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngā Puhi, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1893 AWMM
Kaikohe, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Eruini MAIHI & Mingo HAU

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 6 July 2025 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K8PB-8GD/pita-puarau-maihi-1891-1917

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 26 Jul 1916 AWMM Kaikohe, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Mihi Kihi (wife), Kaikohe, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 15 Nov 1916 AWMM Married AWMM
  Married, 3 children AWMM
• 1913 He married Mihi Paea Merengi ANIHANA
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 6 July 2025 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K8PB-8GD/pita-puarau-maihi-1891-1917

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 20844 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

Bay of Islands Mounted Rifles AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 26 Jul 1916 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 15 Nov 1916-29 Jan 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 69 AWMM Vessel was RMS Tahiti AWMM Private AWMM 10th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 7 1/2 inches AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  Dark AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Black AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Matenga

11 Aug 1917 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Underhill Farm Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Kaikohe War Memorial Hall, Memorial Drive Kaikohe Far North AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Waimate North, Northland AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18056957
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130658.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/445218/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/445218
  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
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  45: 34
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• 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.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• HMNZT 69 - The oilsheet -- At sea : Printed and published on the high seas for the Committee by Corpl. Jas. Perry. : 1916-17