Ngare William Mangaroa

Forenames

Ngare William AWMM

Surname

Mangaroa AWMM

Also known as

• Ngare AWMM
• Ngore William Mangaroa AWMM
• Ngore William Mangaroa AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/400 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngā Iwi o Te Arawa, Te Arawa, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Religion

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Birth

20 Aug 1894 AWMM

Place of birth

Kauriki, Ngapuke, Taumarunui

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 April 2024 - Military Record

Birth notes

Son of Wakaiti and Utaora Mangaroa

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 April 2024 - Military Record

Address before enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Kakahi, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Thompson Mangaroa (brother), Taumarunui, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/400 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Student/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM A Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of pleurisy, following wounds received on Gallipoli AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Maori Contingent AWMM

Death

30 Dec 1915 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta AWMM C. IV. 2. AWMM

Obituary

DOMINION, VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2654, 28 DECEMBER 1915, PAGE 6
MAORI CONTINGENT. Mangaroa, Pte. Ngore William (No. i 6/400). Next-of-kin, Mr. Thompson, Mangaroa, Tauniarunui (brother). (Dangerously ill, 'St. Andrew's Hospital,"Malta, , pleuirisy, 22nd December.)

EVENING POST, VOLUME XCI, ISSUE 2, 4 JANUARY 1916, PAGE 8
MAORI CONTINGENT. Mangaroa, Ngare William, 16/400, Pte. (Thompson Mangaroa, Taumarunui. brother);. died, of pleurisy at Malta,
NORTH OTAGO TIMES, VOLUME CII, ISSUE 13470, 14 JANUARY 1916, PAGE 2
The young native, Ngare William Mangaroa, who left Taumarunui with the first Maori contingent, and whose death from pleurisy at Malta has just been reported, was a fine specimen of young manhood. He was of splendid physique, high intelligence, and good education

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 April 2024 - Newspapers' Reports as above

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Wayside Cross, Morero Terrace, Taumarunui, King Country, New Zealand.
  Public - Ian Banks - Researcher - 27 October 2020 - research

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10928104
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/115580/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/115580
  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

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 480
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• 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.