Thompson Mangaroa

Forenames

Thompson AWMM

Surname

Mangaroa AWMM

Service number

WWI 25556 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

Birth

Taupo, New Zealand AWMM

Date of birth

14 May 1887

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 June 2023 - Military Record

Birth notes

Son of Wakaiti and Utaora Mangaroa, of Kakahi

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 30 October 2025 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174250952/thompson-mangaroa

Address before enlistment

Kakahi

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 June 2023 - Military Record

Next of kin

Mahia Mangaroa (brother), Kakahi, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 27 Sep 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 25556 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Private AWMM 17th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
(gas) AWMM

Last rank

WW1 9 Jun 1919 AWMM Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Thompson Mangaroa was the son of Wakaiti and Utaora Mangaroa, of Kakahi, New Zealand.

Two brothers served in WW1 and died : Ngare William Mangaroa (16/400) and Thompson Mangaroa (25556).

Next of Kin: Mr K. Manaroa, Kakahi, Kaitieke (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

9 Jun 1919 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

urupa, Kakahi Catholic Church, Wiatea Road off SH 4, 16 kilometres south east of Taumarunui, Ruapehu District, New Zealand AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10928105
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130670.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643183/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643183
  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. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 9
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• 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.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.