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Matini Taua

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  • Service number
    WWI 16/360 AWMM
  • Also known as
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • 1st NZ Maori Contingent Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 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. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624. Cultural Permissions may apply.

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Matini AWMM
  • Surname
    Taua AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 16/360 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
    Iwi Māori AWMM
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    22 October 1892 AWMM Peria, North Auckland AWMM
  • Date of birth
    22 October 1892 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Place of birth
    • Mongonui, Whanganui, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - Military Record
    • correction: Peria, Monganui, Northland Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Birth notes
    son of WIremu Hoani Taua & Kane Larkins (Rakena), Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Whatuwhiwhi, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Wiremu Hoani Taua (father), Whatuwhiwhi, via Mangonui, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 14 February 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

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 - 17 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • 1st NZ Maori Contingent Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Service number
    WWI 16/360 AWMM
  • Military service
    1914-1919 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 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
  • Age on enlistment
    22 yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 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
    Sep 1915 Hospitalized when wounded at the Dardanelles; 1919 suffered from Influenza Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - Military Record

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    • Sergeant Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - Military Record

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Memories of the St Stephens School - During the Maori Wars, members of the Militia and the Armed Constabulary used the school as a barracks. In later years, native students of St. Stephen's were to serve the Empire in South Africa and again in France. Henare Kanara was awarded the Croix de Guerre, Captain Wiremu Waaka, Matini Taua and Augustus Rogers, Military Medals, and Frederick Creeke, the D.C.M. Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - OLD SCHOOL PASSES. - Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 287, 4 December 1930, Page 15
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Death

About death

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  • Death
    1961 Public Source
  • Date of death
    1961 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - BMD NZ Records
  • Age at death
    68yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - BMD NZ Records
  • Place of death
    NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 17 March 2016 - BMD NZ Records
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Roll of Honour

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  • Nga mihi aroha ki a koe, tupuna tāne. God bless...arohanui x
    Public - Mere - Other Relative - 22 April 2015
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R7823970
    Further Reference
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 711 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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17 March 2016Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher
22 April 2015MereKaitaiaOther Relative

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