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Honiana Puna

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  • Service number
    WWI 16/219 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Homana Puna AWMM
    • Ho-niana Puna AWMM
    • Johnny Honiana Puna Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 11 September 2024 - https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/johnny-honiana-puna-24-13mvxdm
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
    WW1 Private AWMM
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Honiana AWMM
  • Surname
    Puna AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Homana Puna AWMM
    • Ho-niana Puna AWMM
    • Johnny Honiana Puna Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 11 September 2024 - https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/johnny-honiana-puna-24-13mvxdm
  • Service number
    WWI 16/219 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    25 December 1892 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
    Petane, Napier, Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 11 September 2024 - https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/johnny-honiana-puna-24-13mvxdm
  • Birth notes
    Son of Te Muera PUNA & Rakapa TE TEIRA Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 11 September 2024 - https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/johnny-honiana-puna-24-13mvxdm
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM Tangoio, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Matewai Puna (cousin), Tangoio, Napier, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 14 February 1915 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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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
    • Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
      Wounded on the cheek at Gallipoli AWMM
    • Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
      Gassed on 2 occasions June 1917 AWMM

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    WW1 15 January 1919 AWMM Private AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • First name misspelled as Homana in the Military Personnel File. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    5 October 1957 AWMM
    Bay View, Hawkes Bay AWMM
  • 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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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R20803370
    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: 596 AWMM
    • New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624. AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM

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11 September 2024Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher

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