Herewini Te Maro

Title

Private

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Forenames

Herewini AWMM

Surname

Te Maro AWMM

Also known as

Herewini Te Maro AWMM

Service number

WWI 19770 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Religion

Church of England

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Birth

25 Jul 1896 Public Source

Date of birth

25 July 1896

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Place of birth

Waiapu, East Coast

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Birth notes

son of Ahipene Te Maro & Mere nee' Grant

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Address before enlistment

Waiapu, East Coast

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Next of kin

WW1 Ahipene Te Maro (father), Rangitukia, via Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Western European

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Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• NZ Maori Battalion
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Service number

WWI 19770 AWMM

Military service

1917-1920

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Medals and Awards

British War & Victory Medals
Plaque & Scroll # 950194

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Enlistment

• WW1 05 Mar 1917 AWMM
  Age  20 AWMM
  Labourer/Civilian AWMM
• 13 Mar 1917 at Narrow Neck Camp
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Age on enlistment

20yrs

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Embarkation details

WW1 15 Aug 1917-02 Oct 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 92 AWMM Vessel was Ruahine AWMM Private AWMM 21st Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

19 Mar 1920 AWMM Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of disease - T.B Lung AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Son of Ahipene Te Maro, of Rangitukia, spelt Ohipene Te Maro on Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Next of Kin: Mr A. Te Maro, Rangitukia, Gisborne (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

• 19 Mar 1920 AWMM
• 19 Mar 1920 AWMM

Place of death

Waikato Hospital, NZ

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Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

urupa, Tikapa Road, beside Pokai Marae, near Ruatoria, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM

Cemetery name

Hinekopeka Urupā, Port Awanui,

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Obituary

Son of Mere Grant and Ahipene Te Maro of Rangitukia. Herewini was born and raised in the Waiapu Valley, the area around Tikitiki, Ruatoria, and Tokomaru Bay, in the Gisborne District of New Zealand.

As Private Te Maro 19770 Herewini served with the Maori Pioneer Batallion on the Western Front in France where he contracted Tuberculosis (TB). He was invalided from the theatre of war in Europe in 1918 and passed away at Waikato Hospital in New Zealand from TB of the Lung.

The increase in TB cases spiked during WW1 and is thought to be due to the overcrowded conditions that led to increased transmissibility along with the prolonged mental and physical strain that weakened soldiers immune systems.

Those with TB returned home to relief and celebration of their families but it wasn't long before they joined their comrades who had been killed in the field.

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Memorial name

• St Mary's Church Memorial Board, Tikitiki near Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM
• 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/R7824805
  Further Reference
• 'Tikitiki church war memorial ', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/tikitiki-church-war-memorial, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 29-Oct-2014
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tikitiki-church-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643227/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643227
  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. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  70: 31
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Information kindly provided by family
• 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.
• HMNZT 92. Fresh tracks, or, The wake of the wanderers. (1917). London: Printed by Cassell & Company.