Moetu Toheriri
Born 2 Aug 1893 - Died 13 Mar 1918
- Service number
- WWI 20735 AWMM
- Also known as
- Moetu Toheriri AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- NZ Maori ContingentPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military Record
- Last rank
- WW1 Private AWMM New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
- PrivatePublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
- Forenames
- Moetu AWMM
- Surname
- Toheriri AWMM
- Ingoa
- —
- Also known as
- Moetu Toheriri AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 20735 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Religion
- Church of EnglandPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 2 Aug 1893 AWMM
- 2 Aug 1893 Public Source
- Date of birth
- 2 Aug 1893Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
- Place of birth
- Waipiro BayPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
- Birth notes
- son of Enoka Toheriri of Waipiro BayPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
- Address before enlistment
- Waipiro Bay, East Coast, GisbornePublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Enoka Toheriri (father), Waipiro, Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- singlePublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- Western EuropeanPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military Record
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- NZ Maori ContingentPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military Record
- Service number
- WWI 20735 AWMM
- Military service
- 1916-1918Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military Record
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
- British War & Victory Medals
Plaque & Scroll # 566259Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 13 February 2016 - Military Reord
Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM
- 19 Jun 1916 at Narrow Neck CampPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
- Age on enlistment
- 20yrsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
- Occupation before enlistment
- —
Embarkations
- 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
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
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- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Died in Auckland Hospital of Tuberculosis (TB). Returned undischarged. AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Moetu Toheriri was the son of Enoka Toheriri, of Waipiro, Tokomaru Bay. Reupena (Reuben) Toheriri (16/98) who died in December 1917.
Alternative commemoration - buried in Akuaku Maori Burial Ground.
Next of Kin: Mr E. Toheriri, Waipiro Bay, E. C. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM - WAIPIRO BAY.
The Kings Birthday was gloriously fine, and practically the whole of the people of Waipiro drove or walked to Akuaku, a Maori settlement some two and a-half miles up, the beach. Here two magnificent monuments had been erected by Mr S. J. McMeekin in memory of the three soldier lads who had laid down their lives in the great war. The ceremony of unveiling was impressively performed by the Rev. Pine Tamahori. After the unveiling Mr Tuhere Maraki explained to the pakehas present that the first monument was in honor of Tautuni Maraki, who died on Gallipoli, and the second in honor of the Toheriri brothers, Reupena, who died in France, and Moetu, who was invalided home and died in the Auckland hospital. Mr. Piripi Waipapa thanked the pakehas for the great number who were present to honor the memory of the Maori boys, and regretted that more of their own race were not present. Mr. C. T. MacFarlane, on behalf of ihe pakehas, thanked the preceding speakers for their kind words, and in a neat speech extolled the work of the native race in the cause of the Empire. The Rev. Tamahori acted as interpreter. The singing of the National Anthem brought the proceedings to a close. The visitors were afterwards entertained at dinner in a large marquee erected for the purpose.Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 January 2016 - Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15243, 16 June 1920, Page 8
- Moetu Toheriri was the son of Enoka Toheriri, of Waipiro, Tokomaru Bay. Reupena (Reuben) Toheriri (16/98) who died in December 1917.
About death
- Death
- 13 Mar 1918 AWMM
- Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
- Auckland Hospital, NZPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Military record
- Cause of death
- Died of Disease AWMM
- Death notes
- Moetu Toheriri was invalided home and died in the Auckland hospitalPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15243, 16 June 1920, Page 8
- Cemetery
- Waipiro Bay Services Cemetery, New Zealand AWMM Special Memorial AWMM
- Cemetery name
- Buried in Akuaku Maori Burial GroundPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - http://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/moetu-toheriri
- Grave reference
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- Obituary
- TOHERIRI.—On March 13 I918, at the Auckland Hospital. Private Moetu Toheriri. youngest son of Enoka and Teao Toheriri, late of the Eighth Maori Reinforcements. N.Z.E.F. aged 20 years. Interment at Waipiro BayPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 6 January 2016 - Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1918, Page 10
- Memorial name
- Gisborne's War MemorialPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 13 February 2016 - Research
- Waipiro Bay School War MemorialPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Research
- Memorial at the Waipiro Bay Services Cemetery
Gisborne's War MemorialPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 19 January 2016 - Research
- Gisborne's War Memorial
- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- St Mary's Church Memorial Board, Tikitiki near Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Related objects
Related Serviceperson
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22016374
Further Reference - New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130801.html
Further Reference - 'Tikitiki church war memorial ', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/tikitiki-church-war-memorial, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 29-Oct-2014
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tikitiki-church-war-memorial
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643267/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643267
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
- Military personnel file
- 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.
- The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
- Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 5: Includes portrait - Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- 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.
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