James Pikikotuku

Forenames

James AWMM

Surname

Pikikotuku AWMM

Also known as

• James Teiringa AWMM
• James Raihania Pikikotuku AWMM
• Curtis AWMM
• James Teiringa AWMM
• James TEIRINGA
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• James Raihania PIKIKOTUKU
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Service number

• WWI 19656 AWMM
• WWII 67519 AWMM
• & WWII 67512
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Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Mataatua, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Religion

Anglican, Christian AWMM

Birth

17 Jul 1892 AWMM

Date of birth

17th July 1895

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Place of birth

Taumarunui, King Country

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Birth notes

Son Of Mr T PIKIKOTUKU & TEWAIATA

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Address before enlistment

• WW1 Taumarunui AWMM
• WW2 C/o H.W. Treacy, Kaitieke, New Zealand AWMM
• Te Maire
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Next of kin

• WW1 T. Pikikotuku (father), Kirikau, Wanganui River, New Zealand AWMM
• WW2 Mr J. Dand (not stated), Te Ringa, Public Works Department, Kaitieke, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• 1934 AWMM Married/InterWar AWMM
  Agnes Keepa AWMM
• Widowed/WWII AWMM
• Single
  1934 James PIKIKOTUKU married Agnes KEEPA
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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 19656 AWMM
• WWII 67519 AWMM
• & WWII 67512
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Military service

11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles) AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM
• WW2 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 26 Apr 1917-20 Jul 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 84 AWMM Vessel was Turakina AWMM Private AWMM 17th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
• WW2 Private AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Son of T. Pikitotuku and Tewaiata of Kirikau, Wanganui River. Attended St Stephen's School Cadets. Father of John Dand Te Ringa.

Returned on the Westmoreland part of Draft 228.

Auckland War Memorial Museum copy of Church Army Press. (1918). Te Hoko whitu-a-Tu. London : Church Army Press. signed with J. Pikikotuku Esqure ; rank: drummer ; regiment: NZMP Battalion ; home address: Taumaranui (in hoc signo vinces)--handwritten in pencil. AWMM

Death

18 May 1951 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20801616
  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
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington: Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210104000423/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor.html
  Further Reference
• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• Heavy Fine Imposed In Taumarunui Court, Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1941, Page 3
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19410407.2.25
  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.
  62: 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 84 - The klink : a souvenir of the voyage of S.S. Turakina (H.M.N.Z.T. 84) April to July, 1917; and a history of the doings of the Left Wing of the 25th Reinforcements N.Z.E.F. on their way to the Front -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. : 1917
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1942). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 5 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1941 to 30 September, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 5: WW2 169
• Gardiner, W. (2019). Ake ake kia kaha e! : Forever brave! : B Company 28 (Maori) Battalion, 1939-1945. Auckland : Bateman Books.
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.