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Wiki Te Horohau

  • Service number
    • WWI 19641 AWMM
    • 19641 Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Military Personnel File
  • Also known as
    • Wikiriwhi Horohau AWMM
    • Wikiriwhi Te Horohau AWMM
    • Wikiriwhi Te Horohau Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Direct Descendant
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Nominal Roll Vol 3 (Roll 60), Page: 24 - No known copyright restrictions

Nominal Roll Vol 3 (Roll 60), Page: 24 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
    Koro Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Direct Descendant
  • Forenames
    • Wiki AWMM
    • Wiki Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Military Personnel File
  • Surname
    • Te Horohau AWMM
    • Te Horohau Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Direct Descendant
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Wikiriwhi Horohau AWMM
    • Wikiriwhi Te Horohau AWMM
    • Wikiriwhi Te Horohau Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Direct Descendant
  • Service number
    • WWI 19641 AWMM
    • 19641 Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Military Personnel File
  • Gender
    • Male AWMM
    • Male Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Direct Descendant
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Ringatu Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Direct Descendant

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Te Horohau Tawari (father), Te Whaiti, via Muripara, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    • WWI 19641 AWMM
    • 19641 Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Military Personnel File
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 1917 AWMM
    Age 22 AWMM
    Labourer/Civilian AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • One of the 50 Tūhoe soldiers who fought in WW1. Warahoe. Pvt. World War 1, 1914-1918, sn 19641, 16th Reinforcements Māori Contingent, embarked 26-April-1917 for Plymouth England. Labourer, next of kin - Wi and Raiha Te Horohau Tawari (aka Tawari Te Horohau) (father), Te Whaiti; aged 22 when he enlisted in 1917, dcd 19-Mar-1964 age 77Y in Ruatahuna (Charles Timutimu Research Project).

    Urewera Lands Consolidation Scheme (Report of Commissioners as to position of). Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1924 Session I, G-07."At a sitting of the Commission at Ruatoki in April last it was stated that a number of the Urewera Natives sold their lands prior to enlisting for the war; those who returned now find themselves landless, and they ask that the Crown give them land so that they may not be a burden on the members of their families." Te Horohau was listed as one of these men. AWMM
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Death

About death

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  • Death
    19 March 1964 AWMM
    Age 77 AWMM
  • Date of death
    19 March 1964 Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - New Zealand Death Certificate
  • Age at death
    77 Years Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - New Zealand Death Certificate
  • Place of death
    Ruatahuna Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - New Zealand Death Certificate
  • Cause of death
    Chronic Myocardial Degeneration, Auricular Fibrillation, Rheumatic Cartidis, Chronic Bronchiectasis Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - New Zealand Death Certificate
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
    Uwhiarae Urupa Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Direct Descendant Link
  • Grave reference
    Unmarked Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - Direct Descendant Link
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
    Anzac Hall, Te Rewarewa Marae, Ruatoki Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016 - AWMM
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Anzac Hall, Te Rewarewa Marae, Ruatoki AWMM

Roll of Honour

Remember Wiki Te Horohau by laying a poppy.

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Leave a tribute or memory of Wiki Te Horohau

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  • Wiki or Wikiriwhi Te Horohau is my 'Koro' (Grandfather) and I am so honoured that he contributed his life to the Great War and made it back home as a Returned Servicemen. I have laid a poppy in remembrance of you Koro 'Wi' "I will never forget".
    Public - Ngahuia Sue - Direct descendant - 13 April 2016
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R7824725
    Further Reference
  • References
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      60: 24 AWMM
    • Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand. AWMM
      Urewera Lands Consolidation Scheme (Report of Commissioners as to position of). Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1924 Session I, G-07. AWMM
    • Research for this record was kindly provided by the Nga Wahi Pakanga I Karipori Charles Timutimu Research (August 2014). This project focused on the men of the Te Urewera area who fought in the 1st World War 1914 - 1918. AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM

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13 April 2016Ngahuia SueWaima, New ZealandDirect descendant

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