Nikora Wharewhiti

Forenames

Nikora AWMM

Surname

Wharewhiti AWMM

Also known as

Nikora Wharewhiti AWMM

Service number

WWI 19669 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

4th February 1894

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Place of birth

Waikato

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Birth notes

Son of MATENGA WHAREWHITI of Waiotapu, Rotorua i

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Next of kin

Matenga Wharewhiti (father), Waiotapu, Rotorua, 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 19669 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Apr 1917-20 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 84 AWMM Vessel was Turakina AWMM Private AWMM 17th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Tuberculosis AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Nikora Wharewhiti was the son of Matenga Wharewhiti, Rotorua. Born at Waikato. Served on the Western Front, 1917-18.

Next of Kin: Mr M. Wharewhiti, Waiotapu, Rotorua (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

24 Jan 1919 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Place of death

Auckland

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Cause of death

• Died of Disease AWMM
• Pulmonary Tuberculois
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Cemetery

Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Section 1, Block A, Lot 14. AWMM

Obituary

Advice has been received by' Base Records Office that 19669, Nikora Wharewhiti, a returned undischarged soldier, died at the Auckland Hospital on January 24, from pulmonary tuberculosis. Deceased was 24 years of age and single, his next-of-kin being Matenga Wharewhiti (father) Waiotopu.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 5

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/R22018143
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643146/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643146
  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.
  62: 38
• 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.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• HMNZT 84 - The klink : a souvenir of the voyage of S.S. Turakina (H.M.N.Z.T. 84) April to July, 1917; and a history of the doings of the Left Wing of the 25th Reinforcements N.Z.E.F. on their way to the Front -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. : 1917