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Rangi Otene

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  • Service number
    WWI 16/405 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Rangi Te Kahutea OTENE Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - BMD NZ Records - Marriage & Death Record
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • 1st NZ Maori Contingent Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckl …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Rangi AWMM
  • Surname
    Otene AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Rangi Te Kahutea OTENE Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - BMD NZ Records - Marriage & Death Record
  • Service number
    WWI 16/405 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion
    Church of England Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    14 November 1892 Public Source Taupo, Waikato Public Source
  • Date of birth
    14 November 1892 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Place of birth
    Taupo, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Birth notes
    Son of Paerikiriki Otene MEIHANA & Pareawa MANIAPOTO Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 8 September 2024 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/97NG-HBV/rangitekahutia-otene-1894-1952
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Taupo, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Pae Otene, Hastings, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Pre 14 February 1915 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM
    • 1924 married Vera Teata Thompson Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record & Research

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Egyptian - Gallipoli, Egyptian EF & Western European Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • 1st NZ Maori Contingent Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Service number
    WWI 16/405 AWMM
  • Military service
    1914-1918 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
    Motor Driver Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Age on enlistment
    23yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    • Corporal Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Military Record

Biographical information

Biographical information

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    • CORPORAL RANGI OTENE, M.M.

      A great reception was given on Monday afternoon by the Omaha natives to Corporal Otene. M.M., a member of the First Maori Contingent who awarded a Military meclal for gallantry at Gallipoli on August- 7th. 1915 and was decorated in France by General Plumer. He was also severely wounded in the leg at the Messines battle. He is the first Hawke's Bay Maori to receive this decoration. Speeches of welcome were delivered ov severai speakers, who all heartily welcomed home the wearer of one of His Majesty's coveted honour. In the evening a dance was held in Omahu Meeting House, then speeches, pois. song and a haka by the Tuwharetoas from Taupo were contributed. During the evening a purse of sovereigns was presented by the Omahu Natives, to Corporal R Otene, who suitably responded. Afterwards an adjournment was made to the dining-room, where a sumptuous "spread" was done full justice, after which dancing was again resumed and kept up till 8 a.m. on Tuesday, all having spent a most enjoyable time Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Hastings Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 28, 16 January 1918, Page 6
    • Hastings R.S.A. - Rangi Otene was elected to the committee, as a Maori representative Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - Hastings Standard, Volume IX, Issue 151, 12 June 1919, Page 5
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Death

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  • Death
    13 December 1952 AWMM
  • Date of death
    13 December 1952 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - South Taranaki Cemetery Records
  • Age at death
    60yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - South Taranaki Cemetery Records
  • Place of death
    Opunake, Taranaki, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - South Taranaki Cemetery Records
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
    Opunake Burial Returned Service Association Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - South Taranaki Cemetery Records
  • Grave reference
    Record # 1174; New Plot: 1842; Block B; Old Plot 3; Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 March 2016 - South Taranaki Cemetery Records
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  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 556 AWMM
    • New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624. AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM

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08 September 2024Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher
08 March 2016Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher

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