Puru Tarau

Forenames

Puru AWMM

Surname

Tarau AWMM

Service number

• WWI 20672 AWMM
• WWII 812573 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

15th May 1896 (actually 22 Aug 1889)

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2025 - Military Record & https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GTRQ-RNW/puru-tarau-1889-1973

Place of birth

Ohaeawai, Bay of Islands

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2025 - Military Record

Birth notes

Son of Puru Tarau and Kake Hana Te Heke

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2025 - Military Record & https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GTRQ-RNW/puru-tarau-1889-1973

Address before enlistment

Whangarei

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2025 - Military Record

Next of kin

Mrs Ada Harding (cousin), Waikaria, Bay of Islands, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single
Puru TARAU's wife was Kake Hana TE HEKE

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2025 - Military Record & https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/GTRQ-RNW/puru-tarau-1889-1973

War

• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 20672 AWMM
• WWII 812573 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/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

Related objects

External links

• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24063935
  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

• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• 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.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• 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.