Jack Brooking

Forenames

Jack AWMM

Surname

Brooking AWMM

Also known as

John Ngamaho Baillie Burrough BROOKING

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Service number

WWI 16/1549 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

• 20th March 1887
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• b. 1882
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Place of birth

• Port Awanui, East Coast
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• East Coast, NZ
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Birth notes

Julian Arthur Brooking and Tapita Roko Tabitha Brooking (born Gerrard).

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Address before enlistment

Kopuakoeooe, Te Kaha,

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Next of kin

Julian A. Brooking (father), Te Kaha, Opotiki, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

1921 John Ngamako BROOKING married Kathleen Alice HUNT

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1549 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 56 or HMNZT 57 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM 4th Reinforcements, No. 2 Platoon AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Next of Kin: C/- Mr H. Hunt, Lambton Quay, Wellington (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

9 Apr 1926 AWMM

Cemetery

Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM SOLDIERS BURIAL B Row 2, Plot 22 AWMM

Obituary

LIEUT. JOHN BROOKING.

The death occurred in Auckland on Friday last of Lieut. John Brooking, husband of Mrs Kathleen Brooking (daughter of the late Mr. R. Leslie Hunt and Mrs Hunt, of Auckland), after a long and painful illness which he bore with great fortitude and cheerfulness.
The late Lieut. Brooking saw three years active service in the late war, and the illness from which he suffered was the result of the injuries received while on service. Lieut. Brooking was the son of the late Mr. Julian Arthur Brooking and Mrs. Brooking, who were pioneers of the early days, and who were well known on the East Coast, where Mrs Brooking still resides

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POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME LII, ISSUE 17008, 15 APRIL 1926, PAGE 7

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22280425
  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

• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  34: 40
• 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.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.