Hone Tatarani Raponi

Title

Corporal

Public - Allana Margaret - Other Relative - 25 April 2015 - Famil Papers

Forenames

• Hone Tatarani AWMM
• Hone Tatarana
  Public - Allana Margaret - Other Relative - 25 April 2015 - Whakapapa

Surname

• Raponi AWMM
• Raponi
  Public - Allana Margaret - Other Relative - 25 April 2015 - Whakapapa

Ingoa

Allana Raponi

Public - Allana Margaret - Other Relative - 25 April 2015 - My Name

Also known as

• Hone Tatarana Raponi AWMM
• Hone Tata-rani Raponi AWMM
• Hone Tatarana Raponi AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/184 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Tūhourangi, Ngā Iwi o Te Arawa, Te Arawa, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

b. 1894

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 February 2025 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/hone-tatarana-raponi

Birth notes

Son of the late R. and Harata RANGIKATUKUA

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 February 2025 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/hone-tatarana-raponi

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Motea, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Te Rangi Katu Ruia, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/184 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM B Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Hone Raponi was the son of R. Rangikatukua and Harata Rangikatukua

Listed at Archives New Zealand as RAPONI, Hone Tatarana (April 2009)

Next of Kin: Mr Te Rangi K. Rua, Whakarewarewa (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

4 May 1916 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cemetery

urupa, Whakarewarewa Village, Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM Cemetery past the small church in the main street of Whakarewarewa Village. AWMM

Memorial name

• Rotorua War Memorial (World War 1) AWMM
• 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/R20804207
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130879.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643244/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643244
  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

• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 603
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
• 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.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.