Dick Mason

Forenames

Dick AWMM

Surname

Mason AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/662 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

b. 1892

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Place of birth

Napier

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Opoutama, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Wi Duncan (uncle), Opoutama, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 18 Sep 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
• 1918 Dick Mason married Florence Ellen OLIVER in Romford, England
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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/662 AWMM

Military service

New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Embarkation details

WW1 18 Sep 1915-26 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 29 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Private AWMM 2nd Maori Contingent AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Company Quartermaster Sergeant/Military AWMM

Death

29 Mar 1965 AWMM
Age  67 AWMM

Cemetery

Rotorua Cemetery and Crematorium, 160 Sala Street, Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21373371
  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

• 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. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 489
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Homeward bound : S.S. Briton. As transport H.M.N.Z.T. No. 268 the S.S. "Briton" departed Tilbury, London, 17 June 1919.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.