William Tutepuaki Pitt
Born 1877
Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 11 August 2015 - Military record & Research
- Died 1 Jun 1937 - Service number
- 98 AWMM
- 16/499 AWMM
- Also known as
- Billy AWMM
- Wiremu Tutepuaki PittPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 August 2015 - News Reports
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- NZ Mounted RiflesPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 2 July 2015 - Military Record
- Last rank
- South Africa Lieutenant/Military AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 1st Contingent AWMM
- WW1 Captain/Military AWMM New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM
- War
About
- Title
- Staff Sergeant MajorPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 2 July 2015 - Military Record
- Forenames
- William Tutepuaki AWMM
- Surname
- Pitt AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
- Billy AWMM
- Wiremu Tutepuaki PittPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 8 August 2015 - News Reports
- Service number
- 98 AWMM
- 16/499 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
- Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
- Ngāti Porou, Ngā Iwi o Horouta, Horouta, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM
- Religion
- AnglicanPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 2 July 2015 - Military Record
Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
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- Date of birth
- 1877Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 11 August 2015 - Military record & Research
- Place of birth
- Gisborne, NZPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 11 August 2015 - Military record & Research
- Birth notes
- son of Major Chowell Dean Pitt & Maata Te OwaiPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 11 August 2015 - Military record & Research
- Address before enlistment
- Unknown AWMM Unknown AWMM
- Unknown AWMM 18 Selwyn Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
- Native Lands Commission/Civilian AWMM
- Next of kin
- Mr C. Dean Pitt, Gisborne Club, New Zealand AWMM
- Mrs E.R. Pitt (wife), C/o W. Rogers, Ohinemutu, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 21 Oct 1899 AWMM Single AWMM
- 1908 AWMM Married AWMM
Katherine Rangikawhiti Rogers AWMM - 5 Jan 1909 married Katherine Rangikawhiti RogersPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 11 August 2015 - Military record & Research
Wars and conflicts
- War
- Campaign
- Relief of Kimberley AWMM
- Paardeberg AWMM
- Driefontein AWMM
- 24 May 1900-31 May 1902 AWMM Transvaal AWMM
- 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- NZ Mounted RiflesPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 2 July 2015 - Military Record
- Service number
- 98 AWMM
- 16/499 AWMM
- Military service
- SA War = 1899-1902; WWI 1914-1920Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 2 July 2015 - Military Record
- 1st & 8th NZ ContingentPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 2 July 2015 - Military Record
- SA War = 1899-1902; WWI 1914-1920
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- South Africa Clerk AWMM
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
- SA War: 1st Contingent: October 1899
8th Contingent: 21 Jan 1902 at Wellington
WWI: 26 Oct 1914 at WPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 August 2015 - Military Record
- Age on enlistment
- 1st cngt: 22 yrs; 8th Cngt: 24 yrs; WWI: 37 yrsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 August 2015 - Military Record
- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- South Africa Vessel was Waiwera AWMM Private AWMM 1st New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 1 Company AWMM 1st Contingent AWMM
- WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Captain/Military AWMM B Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM - SA War 8th Cngt: 1 Feb 1902 on the troopship SurreyPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 12 August 2015 - http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/soldier/william-pitt
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
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- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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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
- Medical notes
- Other, WWI AWMM
Nature of Injury: Heart disease Pension: 10/- Percent of disability: [Not stated] 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
- Last rank
- South Africa Lieutenant/Military AWMM
New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 1st Contingent AWMM - WW1 Captain/Military AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM
- South Africa Lieutenant/Military AWMM
- Last rank
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Biographical information
- He married Miss Katherine Rogers in December 1909.
Pitt was present at Kimberley Camp and detached for duty on fit horses in February 1900, as Sergeant.
'Captured at Koornspruit in March 1900 but was placed in temporary charge of wounded military attache, whom he was instructed to convey to a nearby farm. This he did, and then quietly slipped away with the waggon and returned to Bloemfontein.' (Stowers, p.174)
Pitt joined the Orange River Colony Provisional Mounted Police in May 1900.
He left Cape Town aboard the S.S. 'Tongariro' in April 1900.
Pitt joined the Regimental Staff, North Island Regiment, 8 NZMR as Lieutenant and Paymaster, sailing from Auckland abaord the S.S. 'Surrey' in February 1902. (Stowers, p.174)
During the First World War his wife Kitty (Katherine) along with her friend Margaret Buck travelled to Malta and then on to Alexandria to support her husband. There daughter Margaret Alexandria Te Huinga Pitt was born in Alexandria, Egypt.
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%): 421 Gladstone Road, Gisborne AWMM
About death
- Death
- 1 Jun 1937 AWMM
Age 60 AWMM - Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
- Gisborne, NZPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 3 September 2015 - Gisborne Cemetery Records
- Cause of death
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- Death notes
- 16/499 Capt W.T. PITT. Maori Pioneer Battalion. died 1-6-1937Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 3 September 2015 - Gisborne Cemetery Records
- Cemetery
- Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road, Gisborne District, New Zealand AWMM Block S Plot 94 AWMM
- Cemetery name
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- Grave reference
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- Obituary
- OBITUARY
CAPTAIN W.T. PITT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, ;This Day.
The death occurred on his sixtieth birthday of Captain W. T. Pitt, a leading member of the Maori race. Captain Pitt served with the First New Zealand Contingent in the Boer War, and on the outbreak of the Great War joined the first Maori contingent, seeing service on Gallipoli and in France. In recent years he was a Maori welfare officer under the Native Department, taking a prominent part'in land development schemes. In his earlier years Captain Pitt was a prominent footballer, and was captain of the Poverty Bay,fteam for several, seasons. Latterly lie was a member of .the Maori Rugby Advisory Board.Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 2 July 2015 - Evening Post 1 June 1937 - Memorial name
- Gisborne's SA Boer War Memorial - refer to document attached, 'Gisborne Boys in SA Boer War'Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 3 September 2015 - Research
- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- War Memorial Theatre, 159 Bright Street, Gisborne AWMM
Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Cemetery Records. Gisborne District Council.
http://www.gdc.govt.nz/cemetery-record-search/
Sources Used - Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20801688
Further Reference - Other military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880673
Further Reference - New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
Further Reference - CAPTAIN PITT'S RETURN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13895, 19 January 1916, Page 4
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19160119.2.26
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
- Cemetery Records. Gisborne District Council.
- References
- St Clair Inglis, A. (c1902). Souvenir Album of the first New Zealand Contingent South African War. Auckland, N.Z.: Arthur Cleave & Co.
- Stowers, R. (1992). Kiwi versus Boer : the First New Zealand Mounted Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Vol1: 585 - Taruheru Cemetery, Nelson Road, Gisborne District, New Zealand
Cemetery register no. 3143 - McGibbon, I.C. & Crawford, J. A.B. (c2003). One flag, one queen, one tongue : New Zealand, the British Empire and the South African War, 1899-1902. Auckland University Press, Auckland, N.Z.
p.125 - 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).
- Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624.
- 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.
- Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
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