Arthur Te Waata Gannon

Title

Lieutenant

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Forenames

Arthur Te Waata AWMM

Surname

Gannon AWMM

Also known as

Arthur Te Wawata AWMM

Service number

• 1518 AWMM
• 4671 AWMM
• 33003 AWMM
• 4th Ctgn: # 1518; 7th Ctgn: # 4671; WWI: 33003
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Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Religion

Church of England

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Birth

5 Aug 1878 Public Source

Date of birth

5th August 1878

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Place of birth

Wellington

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Birth notes

Son of Michael Joseph & Kate Gannon
Michael J Gannon was an Interpreter in Gisborne area in the 1880

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Address before enlistment

Pre SA War - C/- Michael J Gannon (father)
Pre WWI - c/- Mrs Edna M Gannon (wife), Islington, Ponsonby, Auckland

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Post war occupation

Post SA War: Clerk
Post WWI: Carter/Carrier In Wellington

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Next of kin

• Mrs Edna Hiria Gannon (wife), Islington Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• SA War: father - Michael Joseph Gannon, Ring Terrace, Ponsonby, Auckland
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Relationship status

SA War : single
WWI: married - 1914 to Edna Hiria KELLY

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War

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Transvaal, Rhodesia & Cape Colony

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Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• NZ Mounted Rifles & NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Service number

• 1518 AWMM
• 4671 AWMM
• 33003 AWMM
• 4th Ctgn: # 1518; 7th Ctgn: # 4671; WWI: 33003
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Military service

• 1900-1901; 1915-1919
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• 4th & 7th Contingents & NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Military training

4yrs in No 8 Service Corps

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Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM
• SA War: 14 March 1900 at Wellington, left from Christchurch 31 March 1900
  WWI: 1915 at Takapuna, Auc
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Age on enlistment

SA War: 4th Ctgn = 21yrs; WWI: 37yrs

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Occupation before enlistment

pre SA War: Assistant Surveyor

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Embarkation details

• WW1 19 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 75 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 13th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
• 31 March 1900 on the troopship 'Gymeric'
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Last rank

SA War: Corporal
WWI: Lieutenant

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Wrote He Whakahau in Waitemata wobbler : N.Z. Exped. Forces, XXI Reinforcement.

Died in Townsville Queensland

Father was named Michael Joseph Gannon. AWMM

Date of death

September 1943

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Age at death

65 yrs

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Place of death

Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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Memorial name

Gisborne's S A Boer War Memorial - refer document attached, 'Gisborne Boys in the SA Boer War'

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Memorial name

War Memorial Theatre, 159 Bright Street, Gisborne AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20524656
  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

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  52: 37
• Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Waitemata wobbler : N.Z. Exped. Forces, XXI Reinforcement. De La Mare, Frederick Archibald, 1877-, editor. Rowland, A.E.M. (Albert Edward MacKay), editor. Harris, E.W. (Edwin Walter), editor. -- [On board ship] : [Magazine Committee] Printed by Cape Times Ltd. : [1917].
• 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 75 - Father Neptune's day on the New Zealand Transport 75, "S.S. Waitemata" and other items of interest (1917). New Zealand. Army. Expeditionary Force. Reinforcements, 21st, issuing body. Printed by St Clements Press: London