Prince Wilson Babbington

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Prince Wilson AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Babbington AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19551 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England

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Whānautanga mai

11 Oct 1896 AWMM
Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

11 October 1892

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Wāhi Whānau

Tolaga Bay

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Hone Paputene/Babbington & Miria Kupara

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Uri kiritahi

Mrs Mira Wirihana Babbington (mother), Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 16 Feb 1917 AWMM Single AWMM
• 1929 married Heni Paku Ryland Chambers
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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
• NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion 4th Reinforcements
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Nama Hōia

WWI 19551 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1916-1919

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Te urunga

• WW1 13 Nov 1916 AWMM
  Age  20 AWMM
  Labourer/Civilian AWMM
• at Gisborne, NZ
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Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 16 Feb 1917-02 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 76 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM 14th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Height, Unknown Period AWMM
5 foot 10 inches AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 4 May 1919 AWMM
Discharged on the termination of the period of engagament AWMM
Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Returned Westmoreland 6 April 1919 AWMM

Matenga

30 Jun 1946 AWMM
Age  54 AWMM

Wāhi Mate

Cook Hospital, Gisborne

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 September 2025 - Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22061, 1 July 1946, Page 1

Ingoa o te urupā

Tuatini Urupa, Tokomaru Bay

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Pānui Matenga

Babbington.—At Cook Hospital, on June 30th, Prince Wilson, beloved husband of Jane Babbington, of Tokomaru Bay, and second son of the late John and Amelia Babbington, aged 54 years. Interred at Tuatini Cemetery,. Tokomaru, to-day. T. Haisman, Funeral Director

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 September 2025 - Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22061, 1 July 1946, Page 1

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22271864
  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

• Information kindly provided by family
• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  55: 38
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• 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 76 - The moa : the journal of the Twenty Seconds on troopship "Aparima" (No. 76). Drew, H.T.B. (Henry Thomas Bertie), editor. Digby, H.W.L. (Henry William Lockyer), editor. -- At sea : Twenty-Second Reinforcements : [1917