Rongoihaere Rikihana

Forenames

Rongoihaere AWMM

Surname

Rikihana AWMM

Also known as

• Harry Dickson AWMM
• Rongoihaore AWMM
• Dickson Harry AWMM
• Harry Rongoihaene Rikihana Dickson AWMM

Service number

WWI 19699 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Religion

Anglican, Christian AWMM

Birth

6 Mar 1894 AWMM

Birth notes

Son of Rikihana TARI of Tauranga

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 9 February 2025 - Military record

Address before enlistment

Pre 06 Mar 1917 AWMM Ngawaro, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Rikihana Tari (father), Tauranga, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 26 Apr 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 19699 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 06 Mar 1917 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM
Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Apr 1917-20 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 84 AWMM Vessel was Turakina AWMM Private AWMM 17th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 8 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  10 stone 10 pounds AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Gassed AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Tubercular AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Phthsis AWMM
• Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
  Influenza and pneumonia AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Permanently unfit, contracted tuberculosis on active service AWMM
Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Son of Rikihana Tari (Dickson) and Aorewi, of Tauranga.

The newspaper reported he died on the launch whilst crossing to Matapihi, the service record notes he died suddenly on the Tauranga wharf.

Served as Harry Dickson. Listed at Archives New Zealand as DICKSON, Harry - [a.k.a. RIKIHANA, Rongoihaore]. Name incorrectly spelt on Military Personnel File as Rongiohaore.

Next of Kin: Mr R. Tari, Tauranga (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

13 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

urupa, Matapihi, Tauranga, New Zealand AWMM

Obituary

The death occurred here on Wednesday of Private Harry Dickson, son of a well-known native of Matapihi. Deceased was a returned soldier who had been wounded and gassed, and had been an inmate of the Cambridge Sanatorium for some months. He reached Tauranga by the Ngatiawa at 2 o'clock on Wednesday morning and passed away while crossing the harbour in a launch to Matapihi

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 8 September 2024 - Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 7090, 15 November 1918, Page 2

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
  Sources Used
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  http://www.cwgc.org
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20997175
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130594.html
  Further Reference
• Local and General. Bay Of Plenty Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 7090, 15 November 1918, Page 2
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=BOPT19181115.2.6&srpos
  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

• Bay of Plenty Times
• 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. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  62: 38
• 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.
• HMNZT 84 - The klink : a souvenir of the voyage of S.S. Turakina (H.M.N.Z.T. 84) April to July, 1917; and a history of the doings of the Left Wing of the 25th Reinforcements N.Z.E.F. on their way to the Front -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. : 1917