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Kepa Hamuera Anaha Ehau

  • Service number
    WWI 16/872 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Kepa Hamuera Auaha AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Nominal Roll Vol 1, Page: 211 - No known copyright restrictions

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    • Kepa Hamuera Anaha AWMM
    • Kepa Hamuera Anaha Public - Donelle - Other Relative - 10 April 2015 - He is my Great Granfather
  • Surname
    Ehau AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Kepa Hamuera Auaha AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 16/872 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

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    WW1 Unknown AWMM Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
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    WW1 Mrs Wikitoria N. Ehau (wife), Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 18 September 1915 AWMM Married AWMM

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    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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    Army AWMM
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    WWI 16/872 AWMM
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    WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
    AWMM
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Medical history

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    Lieutenant Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 20 July 2015 - Military Record

Biographical information

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    • Name incorrectly spelt as Kepa Hamuera Auaha in Nominal Roll. AWMM
    • At the age of 29 and with a family of four, Kepa enlisted in the army on 17 June 1915 to fight in the First World War. He sailed with the Second Maori Contingent on 19 September 1915 and saw service in Egypt, and then in France with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion and attained the rank of lieutenant. He was invalided to England in December 1916 and rejoined his unit in June 1917. On 4 August at Basseville (Bassevelde), Flanders, he was severely wounded in both legs under heavy shell fire. He was evacuated to New Zealand in December. During his overseas service Kepa learnt to speak fluent French and later added German and Italian. Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 20 July 2015 - http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4e5/ehau-kepa-hamuera-anaha
    • 12 Nov 1917
      IN A TIGHT CORNER.
      HOW LIEUT. KAIPARA. AND HIS COMRADES FELL.
      Corporal Walter Heany, of the N.Z. Pioneers, writing to his mother, Mrs. Donald Gordon, of Gisborne, gives the first details that have been received respecting the death of Lieut. S A.P Kaipara and a number of other East Coast members of the Pioneers. The writer explains that the battalion went out wiring a stronghold that the New Zealanders had taken from the Germans. Fritz had made things very warm for them since, Corporal Heany remarks. The Pioneers got to within 100 yards of where they had to erect the entanglements, when Fritz opened up on them. The boys halted for it awhile, and then moved through shell fire to their sector. Shells were thrown all around them, and machine gun fire was turned on, this being about 1.3O a.m. The writer, details the circumstances under which Bill Morris, of Gisborne (wounded), was carried out to, the dressing station. On the way back they were up to their waists in mud, and Fritz concentrated fire on them, thus delaying them a good deal. The shells were bashing in the trenches and ploughing through the mud in the shell fire was a trying experience. Patience, however, got them through safely, though they were all fairly exhausted. Lieut. Kaipara rushed along and requested them 'to go back for Ehau, another Gisbornite who was wounded in the leg. As there was no one else he and his mate went back again with Kaipara. They were fairly beaten, and shells were falling worse than ever. Kaipara kept urging them to hurry, but they were so done up they could hardly for dear life lift their legs out of the boggy ground. Frequently they had to put the stretcher down, and then shells would burst near them, the concussion knocking them over in the mud. Eventually his mate dragged himself back to get fresh men, and he could hear Ehau calling "Come on, Heany" but he was completely knocked up. It was then that Kaipara dropped, shot through the head by a piece of shell. The writer went on to say that he had simply to lie down in the mud with the pathetic words still ringing in his ears and cursing himself for being unable to carry on. Subsequently he managed to drag himself out and to get fresh men to carry the wounded out. Two nights later they went out again to dig a trench and about midnight Fritz poured shells into them again. One shell came into the trench and killed Viv Ruru and another chap who had just joined up, besides wounding Trotter and Maharangi Pohatu. Heany was placed in charge to carry Trotter down to the dressing station, where he learned than Kaa, the Ngati Porou officer was killed, also Winiana and Dick Hale (corporal of the section). The party was carrying out one of the fellows (killed), when a shell landed right in the middle of them. With an officer, the writer went back and found their bodies, which were brought in and laid to rest. All were Gisborne and Coast boys. Donald Cameron was killed the same night as Kaipara. The casualties during the two nights were Killed, Lieutenants P Kaa, Kaipara, Cameron, and MacNeil, Corporal Hale, Privates V. Ruru, A. Kopua, Winiana. wounded: -Lieutenant J Ehau, Privates R. Trotter. W. Morris, Manuel, M. Pohatu, and P Kingi Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 September 2023 - Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14452, 12 November 1917, Page 7
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  • "Lest We forget"
    Public - Parewhakaarahia - Direct descendant - 25 April 2020
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  • Kei Wareware Tātou. Lest We Forget.
    Public - George - Other relative - 25 April 2020
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  • I whawhaitia e koe te whawhai pai, i omakia e koe te omanga roa, e moe e koro.
    Public - Darrell Guy Rangitihi - Direct descendant - 25 July 2017
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  • E kore e warewaretia xxxx
    Public - Tania - Other Relative - 24 April 2015
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  • Kepa is my Great Great Grandfather
    Public - Huia - Other Relative - 24 April 2015
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12 September 2023Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher
25 April 2020ParewhakaarahiaPerth, AustraliaDirect descendant
25 April 2020George Rotorua. NZOther relative
25 July 2017Darrell Guy RangitihiRotoruaDirect descendant
20 July 2015Lorraine M Gisborne, NZResearcher

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