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Rore John Josephs

  • Service number
    WWI 16/617 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Rore Hohepa AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Rore John AWMM
  • Surname
    Josephs AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Rore Hohepa AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 16/617 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
    b. 1st January 1895 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 June 2024 - Military Record
  • Place of birth
    Te Kuiti Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 June 2024 - Military Record
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Unknown AWMM Care of Victoria League, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • In 1921 - c/- Post Office, Spring Creek, Marlborough Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 June 2024 - Military Record
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    P. Josephs (brother), Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 18 September 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 16/617 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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
    Other, WWI AWMM
    Nature of Injury: Eyes Percent of disability: 100 Source: New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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    • Present address (as listed in New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100%): Trentham Military Hospital AWMM
    • Coroner’s Finding at Inquest
      A finding of death due to septic meningitis, as a complication rising out of pneumonia, was brought by Mr. E. Gilbertson, J.P., at the coroner’s inquiry yesterday into the death of Rore John Josephs, a Maori, aged 40. Dr. E. G. Gibbs stated at the inquest that he had attended deceased on June 24, the day preceding his death. Josephs was then at the Salvation Army Hostel in Vivian Street. He was suffering from a severe fever. The doctor diagnosed pneumonic complicated by a congestion of the right lung. He had previously attended deceased, and had recommended his admission to hospital for Addison’s disease.
      Post-mortem examination of the body, which was described as that of an emaciated middle-aged Maori, was stated to have been carried out by Dr. J. O. Mercer, acting-pathologist at the Wellington Hospital. Dr. Mercer confirmed the statement that deceased had been suffering from Addison’s disease. He gave it as his opinion that the immediate cause of death had been acute septic meningitis, often a complication of severe pneumonia. The manager of the Salvation Army Hostel, Major Isaac Thompson Briddock, said that on June 24 he had been informed that Josephs was ill, and had visited him in his room. He had summoned Dr. Gibbs, who had prescribed medicine. Next morning he had found deceased lying in bed in a normal position, with the bedclothes over him, dead. Two servants at the hostel, Ernest Harry Steere, night porter, and Evelyn May Stevenson, housemaid, gave corroboratory evidence. Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 15 November 2024 - Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 233, 29 June 1935, Page 25
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Death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Ngāti Maniapoto's WW1 Memorial, Te Tokanganui-a-noho Marae, Te Kuiti AWMM

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  • Rore John JOSEPHS died 25th June 1935 aged 40yrs in Wellington and was buried in the Te Waipatoto Urupa in Oparure, Te Kuiti
    REF: Military Record
    Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 June 2024
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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/R18054949
    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
      Page No: 380 AWMM
    • New Zealand. Army (1920). List of the names of all ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100%, compiled from returns supplied by the Commissioner of Pensions, in respect to: a) Permanent War Pensions, and from returns supplied by the Director-General of Medical Services, regarding: b) Discharged and undischarged hospital patients, assessed as suffering permanent disability, but not yet in receipt of a pension at date (28-4-20). New Zealand. Director-General of Medical Services. NZ Times Co. (Printer). AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM

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