Charles William Hetet

Forenames

Charles William AWMM

Surname

Hetet AWMM

Also known as

• William Hetet AWMM
• Wiri Hetet AWMM

Service number

• WWI 19578 AWMM
• WWI 16/490 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Maniapoto, Māori AWMM

Birth

14 Jun 1893 AWMM

Date of birth

Actually born 12 Jun 1891

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Birth notes

Son Charles & Mata HETET of Te Kuiti

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Next of kin

• Mrs Violet Hetet (wife), c/o Mrs Hugh Glover, Sussex Street, off Newton Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• John Hetet, Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Later they have 2 more children
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 September 2025 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127879409/charles_william-hetet
• 1915 Charles William HETET married Violet GLOVER in Te Kuiti
  Father of 1 child in 1916
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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 19578 AWMM
• WWI 16/490 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 15 Nov 1914 AWMM
  Age  21 AWMM
• WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Feb 1917-02 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 76 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 14th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Did not embark under the name William Hetet (16/490). Service record only has medical examination and attestation 1914. AWMM

Memorial name

WWI Roll of Honour, Ngāti Maniapoto's Memorial Flag Pole, Te Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kūiti AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16794831
  Further Reference
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16794835
  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

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  55: 38
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Roa, T., Paki, M., & Pūrekireki Marae. (2015). Maiea te tupua : whānau accounts of Waikato-Maniapoto World War One veterans and one conscriptee : commemorating 100 years of World War One. Pirongia : Pūrekireki Marae.
• McClintock, K., Turner, K., Searancke, M., Manawaiti, S., Meredith, P. (2024). Ngāti Maniapoto Ope Taua 1914 – 1918.
• 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 76 - The moa : the journal of the Twenty Seconds on troopship "Aparima" (No. 76). Drew, H.T.B. (Henry Thomas Bertie), editor. Digby, H.W.L. (Henry William Lockyer), editor. -- At sea : Twenty-Second Reinforcements : [1917