Billy Tarau Manene

Forenames

Billy Tarau AWMM

Surname

Manene AWMM

Also known as

William Tarau MANENE

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Service number

• WWI 19439 AWMM
• WWII 15226 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

b. 1896

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Place of birth

Waihaha, via Opua, Far Northland

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Birth notes

Son of Mrs Kake Trau MANENE

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Address before enlistment

Waihaha, via Opua

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Next of kin

Mrs Kake Trau Manene (mother), Waihah, via Opua, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single
Husband of Te Whatarangi Sarah (Hira) Manene (married 1919)

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War

• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 19439 AWMM
• WWII 15226 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Feb 1917-02 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 76 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM 14th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24061441
  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.
• 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