Potene Tuhoro
Born 1896 - Died 13 Jan 1917
- Service number
- WWI 16/769 AWMM
- Also known as
- Tuhora AWMM
- Potene Tuhoro AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- NZ Maori Pioneer BattalionPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record
- Last rank
- WW1 Private AWMM New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Potene AWMM
- Surname
- Tuhoro AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
- Tuhora AWMM
- Potene Tuhoro AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 16/769 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
- Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
- Ngāti Porou, Ngā Iwi o Horouta, Horouta, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM
- Religion
- Church of England, Christian AWMM
Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 1896 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
- Date of birth
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- Place of birth
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- Birth notes
- son of Raniera Tuhoro of Rangitukia, Waiapu, East CoastPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record
- Address before enlistment
- Pre 06 Jul 1915 AWMM Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Raniera Tuhoro (father), Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 18 Sep 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- NZ Maori Pioneer BattalionPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record
- Service number
- WWI 16/769 AWMM
- Military service
- School Cadet AWMM
- Canterbury Infantry Battalion AWMM
- 1915-1917Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
- 1914-1915 Star AWMM
- British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
- Victory Medal AWMM
- Plaque & Scroll # 513315Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record
Training and Enlistment
- Military training
- School CadetsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record
- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 06 Jul 1915 AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM
- 8 July 1915 at Takapuna (Narrow Neck Camp)Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record
- Age on enlistment
- 19yrs (other reports say he was only 17yrs)Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - Military Record
- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 18 Sep 1915-26 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 29 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Private AWMM 2nd Maori Contingent AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
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- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
10 December 1915 admitted to the NZ General Hospital in Cairo suffering from enteritis AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
7 January 1916 enteritis was improving AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
11 January 1916 transferred NZ General Hospital, Alexandria AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
13 January 1916 Admitted to Admitted to a convalescent home ?? AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
14 January 1916 discharged to ??? AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
31 October 1916 Admitted 1st Casualty? Station AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
2 November 1916 Sent to No 1 General Hospital AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
4 November 1916 Admitted No 7 General Hospital, St Omer until 2 December 1916 then evacuated by Hospital Ship, St David for England AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
3 December 1916 admitted to 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
9 December 1916 reported with pneumonia AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
11 December 1916 tubercular peritonitis diagnosed AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
20 December and again 27 December 1916 at Brockenhurst and still seriously ill AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
8 January 1917 dangerously ill AWMM - Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
13 January 1917 Died from tubercular peritonitis and buried three days later AWMM - Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of tubercular peritonitis AWMM
- Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Potene Tuhoro was the son of Raniera and Heni Kawhia, of Rangitukia and the brother of Eruera Kawhia (16/95) who was killed at Armentieres, WW1.
Attested 8 July 1915, at Takapuna, Auckland and lied about his age. He was 15 or 16 years old. He recorded the birth date as 1896.
Training in service in New Zealand from 6 July 1915 to 18 September 1915, total of 74 days.
9 January 1916 attached to Canterbury Infantry Battalion at Moascar.
7 May 1916 Embarked for France from Port Said with Pioneer Battalion.
Somme, 10 September 1916 stoppage for loss of ammunition in the field at and punished with the loss of one day pay.
Potene was buried on the 16th January 1917
Raniera and Heni had 2 sons die in WW1: Eruera Kawhia (16/95) and Potene Tuhoro (16/769). They went on to have 2 more sons and they named them in memory of the older boys. The namesakes are: Eruera Armentieres Tuhoro (802247) and Potene Brockenhurst Tuhoro.
Surname is incorrectly recorded as Tuhora on Nominal Roll. He is correctly named Tuhoro in all other references. Home misspelt Rangatuhea on his service record, it is Rangitukia
Disembarked Suez, 26 October 1915.
Admitted to NZ General Hospital, Cairo, 8 December 1915 (enteritis); transferred to NZ Convalescent Hospital, 10 January 1916; discharged, 14 January 1916.
Posted to Canterbury Infantry Bn, Moascar, 19 January 1916.
Embarked Port Said, Egypt, 9 April 1916, and proceeded overseas to France.
Found guilty, 9 September 1916, of loss of ammunition; awarded one day's loss of pay.
Admitted to No 1 NZ Field Ambulance, 30 October 1916; transferred to No 1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 31 October 1916; admitted to hospital, 2 November 1916; transferred to No 7 General Hospital, St Omer, 3 November 1916; embarked for England, 2 December 1916; admitted No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, 3 December 1916 (pneumonia).
Died, No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, 13 January 1917 (tubercular peritonitis).
Name listed on CWGC site as TUHORO.
Next of Kin: Mr R. Tuhoro, Rangatuhea (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM
About death
- Death
- 13 Jan 1917 AWMM
- Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Died of Sickness AWMM
- Death notes
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- Cemetery
- Brockenhurst (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Hampshire, England AWMM Plot A, Row 3, Grave 8 AWMM
- Cemetery name
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- Grave reference
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- Obituary
- Potene Tuhoro was just 17 years old when his soldier's journey brought him to Hampshire.
One day in early December, the hospital ship, St. David, steamed down Southampton Water to its waiting berth. Potene Tuhoro was amongst the seriously ill passengers on board, evacuated from the No. 7 General Hospital at St. Omer. As a member of the Maori Pioneer Battalion he had been posted in August 1916 to help construct communication trenches at the infamous Somme battle of Flers-Courcelette, in the vicinity of High Wood. By October, the associated horrors and intensity of trench warfare had made him seriously ill from debility which developed into tuberculosis and pneumonia.
His destination now was the small and idyllic New Forest town of Brockenhurst where the No.1 New Zealand General Hospital had established itself in June 1916. He most likely was carried by stretcher on to a waiting train at Southampton Docks and taken the short ride to Brockenhurst station, where an ambulance carried him the final few hundred yards to the hospital.
Here Potene Tuhoro saw out his last days, many thousands of miles from his New Zealand home, and cared for by staff from the New Zealand medical corp.
He died of tubercular peritonitis on 13th January 1916 and is buried at the Commonwealth War Grave at St. Nicholas, his ultimate sacrifice marked by a small white headstone engraved with the words: 'Private Potene Tuhoro. New Zealand Pioneer BattalionPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 February 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRWeCJ-MyX4 - Memorial name
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- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Gisborne War Memorial AWMM
- St Mary's Church, Memorial Board, Tikitiki, near Rangitukia, East Coasts, New Zealand AWMM
- Tairawhiti Marae Gates, Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM
- 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
Related Serviceperson
Sources
- External links
- Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe and Tombs. Electronic version
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
Sources Used - Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22013973
Further Reference - Portrait. Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 43, 19 February 1917, Page 8
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19170219.2.56.11&srpos
Further Reference - Auckland War Memorial Museum. Web pages. "In Memory". Eruera Kawhia and Potene Tuhoro
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/?t=832
Further Reference - Website: No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst
http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm
Further Reference - Potene Tuhoro feature, Hampshire Big Theme, Hampshire County Council
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/1914/1914-features.htm?id=193
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/362621/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/362621
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
- Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe and Tombs. Electronic version
- References
- Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
- Church, C. (2002). New Zealand graves at Brockenhurst : 93 New Zealand soldiers remembered from World War One. Hampshire, England: Author.
- Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Vol1: 736 - New Zealand Gazette
Ko te Kahiti o Niu Tireni : The New Zealand gazette; official government gazette for Maori - Carkeek, R. (2003). Home little Maori home : a memoir of the Maori contingent 1914-1916. Wellington, N.Z.: Totika Publications.
- NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
- 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)
- 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.
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