John Tautau

Taitara

Private

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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

John AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Tautau AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

John Tau Tau AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19960 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1 Jan 1896 AWMM

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of Nikora & Hariata Tautau of Tolaga Bay

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Tolaga Bay

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Uri kiritahi

• Waitanwha Matenga (father), Tolaga Bay, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Hariata Tautau of Tolaga Bay (mother)
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Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 15 Aug 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

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
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Nama Hōia

WWI 19960 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1917-1919

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Mētara me ngā Tohu

Plaque & Scroll # 670070

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Te urunga

• WW1 29 May 1917 AWMM
  Age  21 AWMM
  Sheep farmer/Civilian AWMM
• 29 May 1917 at Auckland
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

21yr 4mths

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 15 Aug 1917-02 Oct 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 92 AWMM Vessel was Ruahine AWMM Private AWMM 21st Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 4.5 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  125 pounds AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  February 1918, pneumonia AWMM
• Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
  Abdominal tuberculosis AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 31 Aug 1919 AWMM
Termination of period of engagement AWMM
Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Son of Hariata

He fell sick whilst in France; was evacuated to England, recovered and then rejoined the Battalion

Embarked for New Zealand February 1919, admitted to the Ship's Hospital on the voyage

Next of Kin: Mrs H. Tautau, Tolaga Bay, E. C. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

10 Nov 1919 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of Sickness AWMM

Urupā

urupa, Tolaga Bay AWMM

Pānui Matenga

A Maori returned soldier, Lance-Corporal John Tautau, whose relatives reside at Tolaga Bay, died yesterday at the Cook Hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment for some time. The body is being taken to Tolaga Bay for burial

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

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

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7824007
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130885.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

• 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.
  70: 31
• 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.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• HMNZT 92. Fresh tracks, or, The wake of the wanderers. (1917). London: Printed by Cassell & Company.