Gunner - Private Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

Thomas AWMM

Wi AWMM

• Tamati Waka Nene Wirepa Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record & Research

WWI 16/486 AWMM

Male AWMM

• Ngāti Maniapoto AWMM
• Iwi Māori AWMM
• Ngati Maniapoto/Ngapuhi Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Research

King Country/Auckland Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Research

Church of England Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

1892 Public Source

1892 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

Te Kuiti Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

son of Michael Te Wehi Wehi Wirepakio and Rangiahua Hetet Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

Unknown AWMM Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Wi Kio, Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Pre 14 February 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Egyptian & Egyptian E.F. & Western European - France Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

• Army AWMM
• 1st NZ Maori Pioneer Contingent & NZ Field Artillery Division Ammunition in France Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

WWI 16/486 AWMM

1914-1919 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• 1914-1915 Star
  British War & Victory Medals Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM
  AWMM
• 19 October 1914 at Avondale, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

23 yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 March 1915 AWMM from Wellington, New Zealand AWMM to Suez, Egypt AWMM

HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM A Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

1918 In France, he was badly wounded in both his legs and feet by a shell blast Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

Gunner Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

15 July 1978 Public Source

15 July 1978 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

86 yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

Te Kuiti, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Military Record

After the war Thomas was allocated a War Pension due to the severity of his wounds. He would end up wearing special metal leg braces and shoes to enable him to walk and would carry the pain of those wounds for the rest of his life. He would go on to marry and have a family of five children. He is remembered by his family for his large vegetable gardens and the large eels he often caught and smoked. He is also remembered for his musical abilities, joining the Te Kuiti Municipal Band after the war and also being an excellent Mandolin player. He is fondly remembered as playing the last post on his bugle at the funerals of a couple of his brothers, so it was sad for the family when the local RSA played a recording of it at his own funeral. He passed away in 1978, having lived a full life in spite of his severe war wounds, reaching the age of 85 years old. Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 August 2015 - Research

Ngāti Maniapoto's WW1 Memorial, Te Tokanganui-a-noho Marae, Te Kuiti AWMM

Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R22019014
Further Reference

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
  Vol1: 776 AWMM
• Turner, A. (1982). Turner Reunion 9th -11th April 1982. Hangatiki, N.Z.: Sutherland Print. AWMM
  Photograph in Turner Reunion Book, pub 1982. AWMM
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM