Jack Webster

Forenames

Jack AWMM

Surname

Webster AWMM

Also known as

• Jack Webster AWMM
• Tiaki WEPIHA
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Service number

WWI 19604 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

22nd June 1895

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Place of birth

Tauranga

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Birth notes

Son of Wepiha Rangiamoamo and Paea Mikaere, of Tauranga,

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Address before enlistment

Papamoa

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Next of kin

Wepiha Rangiamoamo (father), Papamoa, Tauranga, 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 19604 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 02 Apr 1917-10 Jun 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 80 AWMM Vessel was Corinthic AWMM Private AWMM 15th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Son of Wepiha Rangiamoamo and Paea Mikaere, of Tauranga, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mr W. Rangimoano, Box 27, Tauranga (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

29 Nov 1917 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France AWMM II. B. 5A AWMM

Obituary

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6944, 30 November 1917, Page 2
Advice has been received by Wepihi Rangiamoamo, of Papamoa, from the Minister of Defence, intimating that his son, Private Jack Webster, was wounded in the back during the fighting operations in France, and is still dangerously ill

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6946, 5 December 1917, Page 2
Advice has been received by Mr Wepihia Ranginoaomo that his son Private Jack Webster, who was wounded during the recent fighting in France, succumbed to his wounds in the 35th General Hospital at Calais on November 29. The deceased was well-known and highly respected in this district and the sympathy of the Europeans and Natives of the community will be extended to his relatives in their great loss.

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Memorial name

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/R22017457
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130825.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/86525/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/86525
  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. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  57: 38
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• 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 80. Tiki-talk / edited by A. Allen, S.D. Waters and J. Carmody ; artist, Gordon Calman. (1917). London: Printed and published by the Angus Printing Co. for the executive committee of Tiki-talk.