Tukapa Toi

Forenames

Tukapa AWMM

Surname

Toi AWMM

Also known as

• Tukapa Toi Makarauri AWMM
• Takapa Toi AWMM
• Tukapa Toi AWMM

Service number

WWI 60559 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Birth

1896 AWMM

Date of birth

27th August 1896 (actually 27th Aucgust 1901

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 November 2024 - Military record

Place of birth

Maungatawa, BOP

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 November 2024 - Military record

Birth notes

Son of Toi Te Mango & Materere McLeod

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 November 2024 - Military record & https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56272235/tukapa_toi_makaraure

Address before enlistment

Maungatawa

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 November 2024 - Military record

Next of kin

Mrs Materere Toi (mother), Moungatawa, Tauranga, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 November 2024 - Military record

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 60559 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 02 Mar 1918-08 Apr 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 101 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Private AWMM 27th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Bronco pneumonia AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Listed by Archives New Zealand and CWGC as TOI, Tukapa

Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Toi McLeod. Born at Maungatapu, Tauranga, New Zealand

Next of Kin: c/o Miss Lundon, Native School, Papamoa (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

30 Dec 1918 AWMM
Age  18 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

Dunkirk Town Cemetery, Nord, France AWMM IV. D. 37. AWMM

Obituary

Tukapa Toi Makaraure was only 16 years old when he enlisted to serve during World War I. While in France he became ill with bronchial pneumonia during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Tukapa died in the 8th Canadian Stationary Hospital at Dunkirk in Nord, France on 30 December 1918.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 November 2024 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56272235/tukapa_toi_makaraure

Memorial name

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

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22016388
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/617434/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/617434
  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

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  80: 18
• 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.