Thomas McLean

Taitara

Private

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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Thomas AWMM

Ingoa whānau

McLean AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Tamati Makarini AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 19728 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England

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Whānautanga mai

1893 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

1893

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Wāhi Whānau

Omaio, Bay of Plenty

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Puhata & Heneriata McLean (aka Makarini)

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Omaio, BOP
Mrs J Brown, Paerata, Opotiki

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Uri kiritahi

Makarini Puhata (father), Waipiro, Hiruharama, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Married Mate McLean, of Hawai, Bay of Plenty (divorced)
father of 1 child

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM
• Western European
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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Nama Hōia

WWI 19728 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

Jan 1917 - Dec 1917

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Mētara me ngā Tohu

British War & Victory Medals
Plaque & Scroll # 508428

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Te urunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Bushman/Civilian AWMM
• 15 Jan 1917 at Opotiki
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

21yrs

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 26 Apr 1917-20 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 84 AWMM Vessel was Turakina AWMM Private AWMM 17th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Thomas McLean was the son of Makarini and Heneriata Puhata, of Waitakaro, Ruatorea, New Zealand. husband of Mate McLean, of Hawai, Bay of Plenty. Native of East Coast.

Next of Kin: Constable Neil. Police Dept., Rotorua (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

17 Dec 1917 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM Spec. Mem. XII. AA. 1. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Opotiki War Memorial

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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/R10926130
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130667.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
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/480352/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/480352
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/2955
  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

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• 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.
  62: 38
• 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 84 - The klink : a souvenir of the voyage of S.S. Turakina (H.M.N.Z.T. 84) April to July, 1917; and a history of the doings of the Left Wing of the 25th Reinforcements N.Z.E.F. on their way to the Front -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. : 1917