Heta Wawatai

Title

Private

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Forenames

Heta AWMM

Surname

Wawatai AWMM

Service number

WWI 20758 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Religion

Church of England

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Birth

Mar 1883 Public Source

Date of birth

March 1883

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Place of birth

Waiapu, East Coast

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Address before enlistment

Tokomaru Bay

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Post war occupation

• Patient in Cook Hospital, then transferred to King George Military Hospital in Rotorua
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• trained as Wood carver
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Next of kin

Mrs Rawinia Terapu (mother), Hicks Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Western European

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Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• 8th NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Service number

WWI 20758 AWMM

Military service

1916-1917

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Medals and Awards

British War & Victory Medals
Eligible for Plaque & Scroll (# not declared on record)

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Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM
• 24 June 1916 at Narrow Neck Camp
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Age on enlistment

23yrs

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Occupation before enlistment

Freezing worker at Waima, Tokomaru Bay

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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

Last rank

WW1 Unknown AWMM Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Next of Kin: Miss M. Wawatai, Hicks Bay, Gisborne (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

20 Jul 1922 AWMM

Place of death

TB Shelters, Auckland

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Cause of death

Tuberculous

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Death notes

Suffered from tuberculous pleurisy - Buried under the name HETA WAIWATAI

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Cemetery name

Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland

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Grave reference

Soldiers Burial B Row 2, Plot 55

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Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• St Mary's Church Memorial Board, Tikitiki near Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22017165
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130891.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
• 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.
• 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.