John Morgan

Forenames

John AWMM

Surname

Morgan AWMM

Also known as

Tom Morgan AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/24 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Birth

14 May 1892 AWMM

Address before enlistment

• Unknown AWMM Whatatutu, New Zealand AWMM
• Whatatutu, Gisborne
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Next of kin

• Miss Materitewai Honatane (niece), Opotiki, New Zealand AWMM
• I believe name is Matekitewai Honatana (Johnson)
  Daughter of his sister Motoi
  Public - Juliet - Other relative - 19 October 2024 - Newspapers and ancestry research

Relationship status

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/24 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM B Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

• Other, WWI AWMM
  Nature of injury: Amp. both legs Pension: 40/- plus 20/- Percent: [Not stated] Source: New Zealand. Army (c.1920). A further list of the names of ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% AWMM
• Died from Natural Causes, Cause of Death AWMM

Death

3 Apr 1943 AWMM

Age at death

52yrs

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Place of death

Christchurch

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Cause of death

Died from Natural Causes AWMM

Cemetery name

Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch

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Grave reference

Block 2F RSA. Plot 3

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Obituary

MR JOHN MORGAN Returned soldiers gathered at Bromley cemetery yesterday & scattered Flanders poppies on the grave of Mr John Morgan, a well known member of the Maori community in Canterbury. The Returned Services’ Association was represented by the president, Mr Colin Miln, who spoke in appreciative terms of Mr Morgan’s record as a soldier in the last war, and of his influence among the Maori people. Formerly of Gisborne, Mr Morgan (who was 52 years old) was a member of the Whanau Apanui, a section of the Ngati-Porou of the East Coast of the North Island. He was incapacitated in the last war, & in recent years was a familiar sight in Christchurch in his wheeled chair. Mr Morgan is survived by a widow & several grown-up children. One son is serving overseas with the Royal New Zealand Air Force.) Mr .Morgan was deeply interested in the social welfare of the Maori people, and until his death was secretary to the Christchurch Maori community. He was also an enthusiastic supporter of the Ngati-Otautahi Club (which was represented at the funeral by its chairman, Mr John Stewart). The chairman, Mr Vernon Thomas, represented the Christchurch Maori Association.
Mr Morgan was known as an active propagandist on behalf of the Maori people, and played an influential part among those resident in Christchurch. During the depression period he kept open house at his home in Christchurch and personally assisted many of his race. Until his death, after a long period of suffering, he took the keenest interest in the Maori war effort. One of his last acts was to assist a party of young tribesmen from Ngati-Porou who had come to the South Island under the manpower scheme.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 June 2024 - PRESS, VOLUME LXXIX, ISSUE 23916, 7 APRIL 1943, PAGE 3

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21377260
  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
• Croon Hickman, L. (2023). Making new men: Zenith artificial appliances and artificial limb-making in New Zealand since the First World War. New Zealand Journal of Public History, 9, 16-32
  http://phanza.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Leanne-Croon-Hickman-Making-New-Men.pdf
  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: 517
• 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 (c.1920). A further list of the names of 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 hospital patients; assessed as suffering permanent disability, and who are whilst in hospital, receiving full pensions. New Zealand. Director-General of Medical Services.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• 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.