Kawenata Kemp
Born 8 Aug 1894 - Died 28 Jan 1918
- Service number
- WWI 20678 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Private AWMM New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Kawenata AWMM
- Surname
- Kemp AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
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- Service number
- WWI 20678 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Religion
- Church of England, Christian AWMM
Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 8 Aug 1894 Military personnel file
- Date of birth
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- Place of birth
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- Birth notes
- Son of Taporutu KEMP (aka KEEPA)Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 15 September 2024 - Military record
- Address before enlistment
- Matakana Island, TaurangaPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 15 September 2024 - Military record
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Taiporutu Kemp (father), Okauia, Matamata, Tauranga, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- singlePublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 15 September 2024 - Military record
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 20678 AWMM
- Military service
- New Zealand Engineers, Tunnelling Company AWMM
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Labourer/Civilian AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 19 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 61 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM 7th 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
Pulmonary tuberculosis AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Kawenata Kemp was the son of Taiporutu Kemp, of Matamata, New Zealand.
Member of the Maori Pioneer Battalion attached to the New Zealand Tunnelling Company.
43 members of the NZ (Maori) Pioneers served with the New Zealand Tunnelling Company and assisted in the late 1916 early 1917 preparations of the Arras caverns for the Battle of Arras.
Next of Kin: Mr T. Kemp, Okawa, Matamata (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM
About death
- Death
- 28 Jan 1918 AWMM
- Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Died of Disease AWMM
- Death notes
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- Cemetery
- Urupa, Okauia, Matamata-Piako District, New Zealand AWMM
- Cemetery name
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- Grave reference
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- Obituary
- Private Kawenata Te Keepa. The death of Private Kawenata Te Keepa Taiporutu (Kawe) occurred at Okauia on Monday, after a somewhat long illness from disease contracted in the trenches in France. The deceased soldier, who was only twenty-one years of age, enlisted in a Maori contingent in. 1916 and saw service in France. He landed back in New Zealand about three weeks ago, and was transferred direct to the Auckland hospital. In that institution it was recognised that nothing could be done for the soldier, and he was removed to his parents' home at Okauia on January 12th. He was conscious throughout his illness, and was quite chatty " to his parents a few minutes before his peaceful death occurred. A brother of the deceased is still on active service. The funeral took place at Okauia yesterdayPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 15 September 2024 - Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 67, 31 January 1918, Page 2
- MAORI CONTINGENT. Died of Sickness in New Zealand. Private K. Kemp.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 9 August 2024 - ROLL OF HONOR.
Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4787, 7 February 1918, Page 6
- Private Kawenata Te Keepa. The death of Private Kawenata Te Keepa Taiporutu (Kawe) occurred at Okauia on Monday, after a somewhat long illness from disease contracted in the trenches in France. The deceased soldier, who was only twenty-one years of age, enlisted in a Maori contingent in. 1916 and saw service in France. He landed back in New Zealand about three weeks ago, and was transferred direct to the Auckland hospital. In that institution it was recognised that nothing could be done for the soldier, and he was removed to his parents' home at Okauia on January 12th. He was conscious throughout his illness, and was quite chatty " to his parents a few minutes before his peaceful death occurred. A brother of the deceased is still on active service. The funeral took place at Okauia yesterday
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- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18056211
Further Reference - New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130656.html
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643194/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643194
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
- Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
38: 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.
- Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
- Neill, J.C. (Ed.). (1922). The New Zealand Tunnelling Company, 1915-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
- Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.
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