Arthur Te Waata Gannon

Taitara

Lieutenant

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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Arthur Te Waata AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Gannon AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Arthur Te Wawata AWMM

Nama Hōia

• 1518 AWMM
• 4671 AWMM
• 33003 AWMM
• 4th Ctgn: # 1518; 7th Ctgn: # 4671; WWI: 33003
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Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England

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Whānautanga mai

5 Aug 1878 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

5th August 1878

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Wāhi Whānau

Wellington

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Michael Joseph & Kate Gannon
Michael J Gannon was an Interpreter in Gisborne area in the 1880

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre SA War - C/- Michael J Gannon (father)
Pre WWI - c/- Mrs Edna M Gannon (wife), Islington, Ponsonby, Auckland

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Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

Post SA War: Clerk
Post WWI: Carter/Carrier In Wellington

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Uri kiritahi

• Mrs Edna Hiria Gannon (wife), Islington Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• SA War: father - Michael Joseph Gannon, Ring Terrace, Ponsonby, Auckland
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Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

SA War : single
WWI: married - 1914 to Edna Hiria KELLY

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Pakanga

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Transvaal, Rhodesia & Cape Colony

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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• NZ Mounted Rifles & NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Nama Hōia

• 1518 AWMM
• 4671 AWMM
• 33003 AWMM
• 4th Ctgn: # 1518; 7th Ctgn: # 4671; WWI: 33003
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Urunga ki te ope taua

• 1900-1901; 1915-1919
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• 4th & 7th Contingents & NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Whakangungu ope taua

4yrs in No 8 Service Corps

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Te urunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM
• SA War: 14 March 1900 at Wellington, left from Christchurch 31 March 1900
  WWI: 1915 at Takapuna, Auc
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

SA War: 4th Ctgn = 21yrs; WWI: 37yrs

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Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka

pre SA War: Assistant Surveyor

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW1 19 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 75 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 13th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
• 31 March 1900 on the troopship 'Gymeric'
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Te tūnga whakamutunga

SA War: Corporal
WWI: Lieutenant

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Wrote He Whakahau in Waitemata wobbler : N.Z. Exped. Forces, XXI Reinforcement.

Died in Townsville Queensland

Father was named Michael Joseph Gannon. AWMM

Rā i mate ai

September 1943

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Pakeke i te matenga

65 yrs

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Wāhi Mate

Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

Gisborne's S A Boer War Memorial - refer document attached, 'Gisborne Boys in the SA Boer War'

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

War Memorial Theatre, 159 Bright Street, Gisborne AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20524656
  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

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  52: 37
• Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Waitemata wobbler : N.Z. Exped. Forces, XXI Reinforcement. De La Mare, Frederick Archibald, 1877-, editor. Rowland, A.E.M. (Albert Edward MacKay), editor. Harris, E.W. (Edwin Walter), editor. -- [On board ship] : [Magazine Committee] Printed by Cape Times Ltd. : [1917].
• 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 75 - Father Neptune's day on the New Zealand Transport 75, "S.S. Waitemata" and other items of interest (1917). New Zealand. Army. Expeditionary Force. Reinforcements, 21st, issuing body. Printed by St Clements Press: London