Identity
Title
Private
Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 30 December 2015 - Military Record
Forenames
Wiremu AWMM
Surname
Tuhiwai AWMM
Ingoa
Also known as
- Wlremu Tuhiwai AWMM
- William Tuhiwai Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 30 December 2015 - Military Record
Service number
WWI 16/46 AWMM
Gender
Iwi
Hapū
Waka
Rohe
Religion
Anglican
Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 30 December 2015 - Military Record
Civilian life
Birth
Date of birth
1895
Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 30 December 2015 - Military record
Place of birth
Tolaga Bay
Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 30 December 2015 - Military record
Birth notes
Son of Tamate and Mereana Tuhiwai, of Tolaga Bay
Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 30 December 2015 - Military record
Address before enlistment
Unknown AWMM Tolaga Bay, New Zealand AWMM
Post war occupation
Next of kin on embarkation
Mrs Mereana Tuhiwai (mother), Tolaga Bay, New Zealand AWMM
Relationship status
- Pre 14 February 1915 AWMM Married AWMM
- 1915 married Nellie Kilburn
father of 1 child Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 30 December 2015 - Military record
Service
Medals and Awards
1914-1915 Star
British War & Victory Medals
Plaque & Scroll # 513314
Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record
Capture details
Days interned
Liberation date
Liberation Repatriation
POW liberation details
POW serial number
Biographical information
- Wiremu Tuhiwai was the son of Tamate and Mereana Tuhiwai, of Tolaga Bay, New Zealand; husband of Nellie Tuhiwai, of Tokomaru Bay. AWMM
- July 1917 - Mrs Nellie Tuhiwai, wife of Private William Tuhiwai of Tolaga Bav, has received advice from the Minister of Defence that her husband died of pneumonia on June 19, 1917 at the 3rd Canadian Hospital, Boulogne, aged 22 years. He enlisted in October 1914, and left with the Main Body. He was wounded in the battle in July 1915, later doing light duty in Egypt. He was sent to France in 1916. finally arriving in England on 11 days' leave, returning to the firing line in France. His illness was very short. Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 30 December 2015 - Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14346, 11 July 1917, Page 3
Memorials
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
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Wiremu Tuhiwai
Processing
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Wiremu Tuhiwai is my grandfather
, My mother Dorothy Tuhiwai was born a month later after he disenbarked to go to war so she grew up never knowing her father.
He kept a war diary which he made entries every day right up till his last day in the hospital. I have this in my possession today.
He will always be remembered even though he lies buried in Boulogne France.
Public - ELIZABETH HIRA BALLYCLARE - Direct descendant - 3 March 2016
Sources
External links
Documents
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
Page No: 736 AWMM - New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624. AWMM
- Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM
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