Forenames

George AWMM

Surname

Taiaroa AWMM

Also known as

George Taiaroa AWMM

Service number

WWI 21749 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

10th August 1895

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Place of birth

Dunedin

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Birth notes

Son of Mrs M KARETAI (Mother) of Cape Saunders, Portobello, via Dunedin

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Next of kin

Mrs T.K. Taiaroa (grandmother), Taumutu, Leeston, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 21749 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 21 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 62 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 16th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

George Taiaroa was the grandson of Mrs. I. K. Taiaroa, of Leeston, Taumutu, Canterbury, New Zealand.

New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141. AWMM

Death

7 Jun 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7823520
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1738335/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1738335
  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 at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  https://archive.org/details/newzealandatfron00lond/newzealandatfron00lond
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  38: 13
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.