Watarawi Pineaha

Forenames

Watarawi AWMM

Surname

Pineaha AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/246 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

3rd February 1890

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Place of birth

Omahu, H.B.

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Birth notes

Son of Pineaha & Hineruku MOKIHI

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Fernhill, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

• Pineaha Mokihi (brother), Fernhill, via Napier, New Zealand AWMM
• Pineaha Mokiha (brother), Fernhill, Hastings, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Battle of the Somme AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/246 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM B Company AWMM Not known AWMM
• WW1 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
  HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 4th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Death

29 Sept 1916 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM D. 24. AWMM

Obituary

DIED OF WOUNDS. reported wounded, now reported died of wounds September 29: — WATARAWI PINEAHA, Maori Contingent — P. Mokihi, Fernhill Hastings (brother)

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 June 2024 - DOMINION HEROES.
AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME XLVII, ISSUE 303, 20 DECEMBER 1916, PAGE 9

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20801526
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/545199/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/545199
  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: 583
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  31: 25
• 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. 2: Includes portrait
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• HMNZT 52.The bugle call of the 12th NZ Reinforcements : being the souvenir number of The Mokoia chronicle.(1916). On board ship: Published on board H.M.N.Z. Transport no. 52 "S.S. Mokoia".
• 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.