William Henry Cooper

Taitara

Corporal/Private

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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

William Henry AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Cooper AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

William Henry (Kingi Areta) Cooper

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Nama Hōia

• South African 7584 AWMM
• WWI 47860 AWMM
• SA War: 7th Cngt # 6320; 9th Cngt # 7586; WWI: 47860
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Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

• Church of England, Christian AWMM
• Church of England
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Whānautanga mai

• 1879 AWMM
• 1879 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

1879

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Wāhi Whānau

Gisborne

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of William Henry Cooper & Sarah (nee MacKay) of Waerenga-a-hika Gisborne

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• WW1 Ruakituri AWMM
• pre SA War - Nelson Road, Gisborne
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Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

Post SA War = Living c/- A E Palmer, Hick's Bay

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Uri kiritahi

• WW1 Mrs W.H. Cooper (wife), care of Post-office, Te Reinga, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
• pre SA War - father - William H Cooper of Nelson Rd, Gisborne
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Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Married/WWI AWMM
• pre SA War - Single
  1917 - married Harietta Reihana Kumera
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Pakanga

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

Kauhanga riri

Transvaal & Orange Free State; Western Europe

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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• WWI: NZ Maori Contingent 27th Reinforcements
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Nama Hōia

• South African 7584 AWMM
• WWI 47860 AWMM
• SA War: 7th Cngt # 6320; 9th Cngt # 7586; WWI: 47860
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Urunga ki te ope taua

• 1901-1902; 1917-1919
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• 7th & 9th Cngts; 18th Reinf. NZ Maori Pioneer Btn
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Whakangungu ope taua

pre WWI = SA War

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Te urunga

• WW1 Labourer/Civilian AWMM
• SA War = 16 Jan 1902 at Trentham
  WWI = 29 Jan 1917 at Wairoa
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

SA War: 23 yrs 6 mths; WWI: 37 yrs

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Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka

pre SA War - Bushfelling

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 12 Jun 1917-15 Aug 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 86 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM 18th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

1918 - hospitalised in France due to sickness

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Te tūnga whakamutunga

• Private AWMM
• SA War - Corporal
  WWI - Private
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Matenga

30 Jan 1961 AWMM

Rā i mate ai

30 January 1961

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Pakeke i te matenga

87 yrs

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Wāhi Mate

at Waipu (probably means Waiapu)

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Urupā

Waipu Cemetery AWMM

Ingoa o te urupā

Punaruku Urupa, Te Araroa

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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/R20519424
  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.
  67: 41
• 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.
• 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.