Haka Smith

Forenames

Haka AWMM

Surname

Smith AWMM

Also known as

• Mete AWMM
• Haka Mete Smith AWMM
• W. Smith AWMM

Service number

WWI 19417 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

12th April 1896

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 18 July 2024 - Military Record

Place of birth

Hokianga

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 18 July 2024 - Military Record

Birth notes

Son of Mete and Aramaera Smith, of Kohu Kohu, Hokianga

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 18 July 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/haka-mete-smith

Address before enlistment

Kohukohu, Hokianga

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 18 July 2024 - Military Record

Next of kin

WW1 Mete Smith (father), Kohukohu, Hokianga, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 18 July 2024 - Military Record

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 19417 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Bushman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 02 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 73 AWMM Vessel was Opawa AWMM Private AWMM 12th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Haka Smith was the son of Mete and Aramaera Smith, of Kohukohu, Hokianga, New Zealand. Listed as W. Smith on the Hokianga Arch of Remembrance, his baptised name was Wetini Tohu mith

Next of Kin: Mr M. Smith, Kohukohu, Hokianga (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

19 Nov 1917 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM III. I. 4. AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Hokianga Arch of Remembrance, Kohukohu, Hokianga, New Zealand AWMM
• Kohukohu School (memorial gates, WW1), Hokianga, Northland, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7818795
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130565.html
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Howick & Pakuranga War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/howick-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/96974/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/96974
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Kohukohu First World War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/kohukohu-first-world-war-memorial
  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.
  49: 22
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• 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.