Turner Bell

Title

D.O.B. 12 Oct 1900 Died 13 Oct 1979

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Forenames

Turner AWMM

Surname

Bell AWMM

Also known as

• Tana Whareaitu AWMM
• Te Ramanui Tawa BELL
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 June 2024 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KLF3-WBV/te-ramanui-tawa-bell-1900-1987

Service number

WWI 20740 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Maniapoto, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

12th February 1896 (or 1900)

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Place of birth

Te Kuiti

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Birth notes

Son of Te Whareaitu BELL & Ngaraima HETET of Te Kuiti

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Address before enlistment

Te Kuiti

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Next of kin

Mrs Ngarima Bell (mother), Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

1934 Turner (Te Ramanui Tawa) BELL married Hana Ngahiriwa ANDERSON

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 June 2024 - NZ BDM Marriage record & https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KLF3-WBV/te-ramanui-tawa-bell-1900-1987

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 20740 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Private AWMM 8th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Memorial name

WWI Roll of Honour, Ngāti Maniapoto's Memorial Flag Pole, Te Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kūiti AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22274479
  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

• Roa, T., Paki, M., & Pūrekireki Marae. (2015). Maiea te tupua : whānau accounts of Waikato-Maniapoto World War One veterans and one conscriptee : commemorating 100 years of World War One. Pirongia : Pūrekireki Marae.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 40
• 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.
• McClintock, K., Turner, K., Searancke, M., Manawaiti, S., Meredith, P. (2024). Ngāti Maniapoto Ope Taua 1914 – 1918.
• 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.
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.