George Nicholls

Forenames

George AWMM

Surname

Nicholls AWMM

Also known as

• Wi Amohanga AWMM
• Wi Nikora AWMM
• Wi Horima NIKORA
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 June 2024 - https://www.geni.com/people/Wi-Nikora/6000000000226820413 & NZ BDM Death Records
• Wi AMOHANGA
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 June 2024 - WHITIKI! WHITI! WHITI! E! - by Monty Soutar page 239

Service number

WWI 20695 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

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

Date of birth

5th February 1895

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 June 2024 - Military record

Place of birth

Te Kuiti

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 June 2024 - Military record

Birth notes

Son of Nikora Te Amohanga Te Hauparoa and Werawera Ereni Hetet

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 June 2024 - https://www.geni.com/people/Wi-Nikora/6000000000226820413

Address before enlistment

Te Kuiti

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 June 2024 - Military record

Next of kin

Amohanga Nicholls (father), Hangatiki, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Husband of Ethel Karawhira Nikora

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 29 June 2024 - https://www.geni.com/people/Wi-Nikora/6000000000226820413

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 20695 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Driver/Military 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/R21380403
  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.
• 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.