Teira Hoani Mete Kingi

Title

Corporal

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Forenames

Teira Hoani AWMM

Surname

Mete Kingi AWMM

Also known as

Hira AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/383 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Māori AWMM

Religion

Church of England

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Date of birth

8th August 1887

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Place of birth

Porewai, Whanganui

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Birth notes

Son of Hoani and Peeke Metekingi, of Putiki, Wanganui,

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Hoani Mete Kingi (father), Kaetahi, Putiki, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• Egyptian - Gallipoli
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Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• 1st NZ Maori Battalion
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Service number

WWI 16/383 AWMM

Military service

1914-1915

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Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM A Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
New Zealand Maori Contingent AWMM

Death

8 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  28 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Obituary

Mr Hoani Mete Kingi, of Putiki, Wanganui, has received word that one of his sons. Corporal Teira H Mete Kingi, has been killed in action. Corporal Mete Kingi. who was 25 years of age. was employed on a farm up the Wanganui river when he joined the First Maori Contingent, together with his two younger brothers. They come from a great fighting stock and of a well-known family among the natives throughout, the Dominion. They were grandsons of that well-known fighting chief Mete Kingi Paetahi, who was the leader of the "Native Friendlies" who fought for the British against the Houhous at Moutoa Island battle on the Wanganui river.

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Memorial name

Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21374859
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/680216/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/680216
  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: 500
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• 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)
• 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.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.