Maku Hale
Born 1891 - Died 15 Jun 1953
- Service number
- WWI 16/96 AWMM
- Also known as
- McDonald HALEPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military Record
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- New Zealand Expeditionary ForcePublic - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - Military Service Records
- Last rank
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- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
- MrPublic - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - I am his grandson, this information comes from family sources.
- Forenames
- Maku AWMM
- MakuPublic - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - I am his grandson, this information comes from family sources.
- Surname
- Hale AWMM
- HalePublic - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - I am his grandson, this information comes from family sources.
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
- McDonald HALEPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military Record
- Service number
- WWI 16/96 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- MalePublic - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - I am his grandson, this information comes from family sources.
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
- Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
- Ngāti Porou, Ngā Iwi o Horouta, Horouta, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM
- Religion
- Church of EnglandPublic - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - I am his grandson, this information comes from family sources. Army Records.
Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 1891 Public Source
- Date of birth
- Age 26 at 27/4/1918Public - Gail Pamela - Other relative - 11 April 2017 - Marriage certificate 2534 District of Waiapu
- 1891Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record
- Age 26 at 27/4/1918
- Place of birth
- Tolaga BayPublic - Gail Pamela - Other relative - 11 April 2017 - Marriage cert
- TuparoaPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record
- Tolaga Bay
- Birth notes
- Father = John Speed, mother = Alice Speed, nee Hale. Info from marriage cert 27/4/1918 @ Waipiro BayPublic - Gail Pamela - Other relative - 11 April 2017 - Marriage certificate
- son of William Frederic & Annie Gertrude HALEPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Research
- Father = John Speed, mother = Alice Speed, nee Hale. Info from marriage cert 27/4/1918 @ Waipiro Bay
- Address before enlistment
- Unknown AWMM Tuparoa, Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Sonny Richmond Hale (son), Tuparoa, Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand AWMM
- Alice Hale (sister) of Tuparoa, East CoastPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record
- Relationship status
- Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
- Married 27 April 1918 at Waipiro Bay to Riria HarrisonPublic - Gail Pamela - Other relative - 11 April 2017 - Marriage certificate
- 1918 married Riria HarrisonPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record & Research
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- Correction - Gallipoli 24 Jul 1915 - 20 Nov 1915 (not 1914).Public - Rex edward - Other Relative - 17 February 2015 - Military Service Records.
- Gallipoli 24 Jul 1914 - 20 Nov 1915. France 9 Apr 1916 - 26 Sep 1916Public - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - Military Service Records
- Correction - Gallipoli 24 Jul 1915 - 20 Nov 1915 (not 1914).
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- New Zealand Expeditionary ForcePublic - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - Military Service Records
- Service number
- WWI 16/96 AWMM
- Military service
- Promt'd to Lance Corporal 1 Feb 1915. Promt'd to Corporal 28 Apr 1916. Wounded in action 26 Sep 1916Public - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - Military Service Records
- NZ Maori Contingent B Company. Attached to Canterbury Infantry Battalion 9 Apr 1916Public - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - Military Service Records
- Promt'd to Lance Corporal 1 Feb 1915. Promt'd to Corporal 28 Apr 1916. Wounded in action 26 Sep 1916
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1
- Enlisted at Avondale Military Camp 14 Nov 1914Public - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - Military records.
- Age on enlistment
- Enlisted at age 24 years, Born 12 May 1890. Died 15 Jun 1953.Public - Rex Edward - Other Relative - 14 February 2015 - Family records.
- Occupation before enlistment
- Labourer at TuparoaPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record
Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM B Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM
Prisoner of war
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- Days interned
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
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Last known rank
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Biographical information
- WW1 NZEF Ist Maori Contingent Corporal Maku Hale, Regimental No. 16/96.
My maternal grandfather after an initial basic training here in NZ at 27 years old and married with a young son departed from Wellington on the SS "Wairrimoo"on the 14th of February and arrived in Egypt on the 26th of March 1915.After a spell of training in Egypt they were transfered to the island of Malta for further specialist training and it was there that the 1st Maori Contingent gathered word of the Dardanelles landings on the 25th of April witnessing the many wounded soldiers returning from the Gallipoli landings and hearing of its disastrous situation. He along with his 477 strong 1st Maori Contingent would have clearly understood the dangerous confused situation they were to face before arrival at Gallipoli on the Dardenelles Peninsular, landing at ANZAC cove on the 3rd of July 1915. Initially assigned to B company of the 1st Maori contingent on arrival their he was attached as an Assault Rifleman to the Canterbury Infantry Battalion.
He fought in the murderously ferocious and briefly successful assault on Chunuk Bair at Gallipoli over the days of the 7th and 8th of August ultimately under command of Lt. Col. William Malone who was killed in action their on the 8th of August 1915.
Corporal Hale was evacuated from ANZAC cove on or before the 14th of December 1915 one of only 132 1st Maori Contingent remaining as 345 of them were already departed either sick, wounded, missing or killed in action.
Initially promoted to a Lance Corporal N.C.O. in NZ on the 1st of February 1915 and later to full Corporal on the 28th April 1916 at the Western Front in France.
Corporal Hale was wounded in action seriously damaging his left hand and lower fore arm in France on the Somme during the Battle of Morval after surviving unscathed the previous Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the 26th of September 1916. He was removed and placed in the nearest Forward Dressing Station then to a Casualty Clearing Station whereby he was stabilised and sent on to England for 5 months to recover.
On his return home during 1917 to his whanau on the East Coast at Tolaga bay he returned to his beloved wife Riria at Waipiro bay and to their first son Sonny Richmond Hale whom he had used interestingly as his next of kin on his military application into the 1st Maori Contingent and NZEF...suggesting to me his wife Riria being my grandmother refused to sign as next of kin and was not supportive of his signing up to fight. However they ultimately settled at the beautifull Ngati Porou land of Haurataunga Ki Hauraki known as Kennedy Bay on the east coast of the Coromandal peninsular. They produced a living total of 17 children one of whom was my birth mother Mere Arihi Hale or Alice (Alice was the name of Maku's sister) and two of whom Richard and Frank Hale later serving with the 2nd NZEF as members of the 28th (Maori) Battalion during WW2.
Maku was born on the 12th of May 1890 and died at Port Jackson on the 15th of June 1953. He is laid to rest at the Coromandel War Veterans Cemetary where his son Frank Hale of the 28th (Maori) Battalion also lies.
His elder brother Sergeant Richard Hale, Regimental No 16/5 also of Tolaga Bay and B Company 1st Maori Contingent fought along side his young brother Maku in all the above war arenas and went on (after Maku being wounded 1916) to see further actions in France at Messines and in Belgium on the Ypres Salient where he was killed in action their on the 14th of August 1917.
Brothers in arms. - Reference: Denis Clough archivePublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 February 2016 - http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/photo/corporal-maku-hale-nzef-1st-maori-contingent
About death
- Death
- 15 Jun 1953 Public Source
- Date of death
- 15 June 1953Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record, BMD NZ Records & Thames-Coromandel District Council Cemetery Records
- Age at death
- 62yrsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record, BMD NZ Records & Thames-Coromandel District Council Cemetery Records
- Place of death
- Port JacksonPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record, BMD NZ Records & Thames-Coromandel District Council Cemetery Records
- Cause of death
- Port Jackson, CoromandelPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record, BMD NZ Records & Thames-Coromandel District Council Cemetery Records
- Death notes
- This is incorrect, Frank is my grandfather and is laid to rest at Levin Cemetery, please have the correct information before writing details 🤔Public - Sarah - Direct descendant - 6 May 2017 - My information is correct as my father is buried a few graves down from his father (frank)
- Maku was born on the 12th of May 1890 and died at Port Jackson on the 15th of June 1953. He is laid to rest at the Coromandel War Veterans Cemetary where his son Frank Hale of the 28th (Maori) Battalion also lies.Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record, BMD NZ Records & Thames-Coromandel District Council Cemetery Records
- This is incorrect, Frank is my grandfather and is laid to rest at Levin Cemetery, please have the correct information before writing details 🤔
- Cemetery
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- Cemetery name
- Buffalo Cemetery - Coromandel War Veterans Cemetary, CoromandelPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record, BMD NZ Records & Thames-Coromandel District Council Cemetery Records
- Grave reference
- ID: 5RSAL-PLOT-0009; Plot 0009; Location: RSAL-PLOT-0009Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 5 March 2016 - Military record, BMD NZ Records & Thames-Coromandel District Council Cemetery Records
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Memorial
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Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16790120
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
- Military personnel file
- References
- New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Page No: 292 - Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
- Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
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