Ratapu Te Moni

Forenames

Ratapu AWMM

Surname

Te Moni AWMM

Also known as

Ratapu Te Moni AWMM

Service number

WWI 20048 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

1897

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Place of birth

Maketu

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Birth notes

Son of Te Moni Keepa

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Address before enlistment

Matata, BOP

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Next of kin

Te Moni Keepa (father), Matata, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 20048 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Roadman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 22 Nov 1917-07 Jan 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 95 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM 23rd Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Tubercular meningitis AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Ratapu Te Moni was the son of Te Moni Keepa.

Next of Kin: Mr Te Moni Keepa, Matata, E. C. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

14 Aug 1919 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

urupa, Okere, Te Akau Road, Okere Falls, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM

Cemetery name

Okere Maori Cemetery, Rotoiti

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Obituary

Reported died of sickness in New Zealand — Maori Contingent, August 14th—TE MONI, Ratapu (TE MONI, Keepa, Matata. father)

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 January 2025 - ROLL OF HONOUR
Press, Volume LV, Issue 16606, 20 August 1919, Page 8

Memorial name

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

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7824817
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643230/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643230
  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.
  75: 48
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• 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 95. Grey funnel : with which is incorporated The tin hut table, Empire’s call, and The Quinn's Post nightly : the official organ of Troopship 95 on her 8th trip to the homeland. 1917. London: Published by a N.Z. Reinforcement, printed by St. Clements Press.