Nikora Te Tuhi

Forenames

Nikora AWMM

Surname

Te Tuhi AWMM

Also known as

• Tetuhi AWMM
• Nikora TeTuhi AWMM
• Nikora Te Tuhi AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1390 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

20th July 1890

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 September 2024 - Military Record

Place of birth

Matata

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 September 2024 - Military Record

Birth notes

Son of Te Moki Tetuhi (father), Matata, Bay of Plenty,

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 September 2024 - Military Record

Next of kin

Te Moki Tetuhi (father), Matata, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

single

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 September 2024 - Military Record

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1390 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM 4th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Surname is recorded as Tetuhi on Nominal Rolls, BDM and by National Archives, Te Tuhi in other references.

Next of Kin: Mrs H. Moke, Turangaarere via Taihape (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

4 Aug 1917 AWMM

Place of death

La Basse-Ville (Warneton)

Public - Dominique GJM - Researcher - 1 November 2025 - Date of death and burial place Dominique GJM Cooreman: La Basse-ville 1917: NZ Voices from Flanders Fields, 2016, p371

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Prowse Point Military Cemetery, Commines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium AWMM III. A. 27. AWMM

Memorial name

• Rotorua War Memorial (World War 1) AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7825014
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130793.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/445594/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/445594
  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 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.
  31: 26
• 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".
• 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.