First Maori to command the Maori Battalion. His mother Repeka Wharawhara Love (OBE) was a great-grand-child of Sir Mungo Park, whose son, Mr Robert Park of Scotland, was the surveyor who accompanied Colonel Wakefield of New Zealand. While his father Wi Hapi Love, was the great-grandson of Jack Love (Hakirau), the only European who sign the Treaty of Waitangi as a Maori. Lieutenant-Colonel Love's widow was Mrs. Takau Rio Love, formerly of Petone, and now paramount chief, or Makea Nui Ariki, of Rarotonga. (Source: Maori Fallen, Evening Post Volume CXXXIV, Issue 22, 25 July 1942, p.6.)

DNZB write he was known to his family, and to the men he commanded, as Tiwi, sometimes Tui. Listed as Edward Te Whiti Rongomai Love on the Nominal Rolls, CWGC and Rolls of Honour. Listed by DNZB as Eruera Te Whiti o Rongomai Love. AWMM