Moki Te Kairangatira

Forenames

Moki AWMM

Surname

Te Kairangatira AWMM

Also known as

• Tekairangatira AWMM
• Moki Tekairangatira AWMM

Service number

WWI 60453 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Raukawa ki Te Tonga, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngā Iwi o Tainui, Tainui, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

16th July 1897

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 December 2025 - Military Record

Place of birth

Wanganui

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 December 2025 - Military Record

Birth notes

Son of TE KAIRANGATIRA & Rangi Pawera TE KAIRANGATIRA

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 December 2025 - Military Record

Address before enlistment

Putiki, Wanganui

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 December 2025 - Military Record

Next of kin

Mrs Rangipawera te Kairangatira (mother), Kakariki, Halcombe, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 December 2025 - Military Record

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 60453 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 22 Nov 1917-07 Jan 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 95 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM 23rd Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Listed at Archives New Zealand as Te Kairangatira and as Tekairangatira on the Nominal Roll

Disembarked Liveipool 17.1.18. Left for France 27.3.18. Joined Pioneer Battalion 10.4.18. Embarked England SS St George 3.1.19. Returned NZ SS Westmoreland 6.4.19. Discharged 4.5.19. Service abroad lyr 136 days. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7824752
  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. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  75: 48
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Iwi, Hapū, Rohe and additional whakapapa information kindly provided from “Ngāti Raukawa and 20th century wars. Ngā Pakanga o Te Ao. Participation, Price, and Post-War Experience.” Research conducted by Te Kenehi Teira and Heeni Collins (2022). Report commissioned by Crown Forestry Rental Trust, Wellington (Wai 2200 Porirua ki Manawatu Inquiry).
• 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 95. Grey funnel : with which is incorporated The tin hut table, Empire’s call, and The Quinn's Post nightly : the official organ of Troopship 95 on her 8th trip to the homeland. 1917. London: Published by a N.Z. Reinforcement, printed by St. Clements Press.