Lawrence William Te Heu Heu Grace

Forenames

Lawrence William Te Heu Heu AWMM

Surname

Grace AWMM

Service number

WWI 25407 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngā Iwi o Te Arawa, Te Arawa, Waka o Ngā Iwi, Ngā Iwi, Māori AWMM

Birth

25 Nov 1888 AWMM

Place of birth

Tauranga - actually Pukawa, Lake Taupo

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 January 2025 - Military Record & Obituary

Birth notes

Son of Lawrence and Henrietta GRACE (nee' Te Heu Heu.)

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 January 2025 - Military Record

Address before enlistment

99 Coromandel Street, Wellington

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 January 2025 - Military Record

Next of kin

Laurence Marshall Grace (father), Government Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 January 2025 - Military Record

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 25407 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Solicitor/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Apr 1917-28 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 82 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM H Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Death

14 Mar 1932 AWMM

Age at death

44 years

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 January 2025 - 43 - 44 yrs - estimated from birth - death dates

Place of death

Wellington

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 January 2025 - Obituary

Cemetery name

Urupa in the Village of Waihi, Lake Taupo

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 January 2025 - Obituary

Obituary

MR. L. W. GRACE
The death of Mr. Laurence William te Heuheu Grace, a member of a well known Wellington family, occurred at a private hospital in Wellington yesterday. He caught a chill early in January, and complications set in. An operation was unsuccessful. The eldest son of Lawrence Marshall Grace and the late Te Kahui te Heuheu Grace. He was born in 1888 at Pukawa, Lake Taupo, where his grandfather, the Rev. T. S. Grace, had a mission station. For some time he lived with his uncle, Archdeacon T. S. Grace, of Blenheim. He attended the Blenheim Borough School and Wellington College, and was for some years a member of the college senior Rugby team. He then went to Canterbury University College to study law, and was later admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr. Grace was a member of the New Zealand Universities' Rugby team which went to Australia just before the Great War. He then joined the Auckland legal firm of Earl and Kent. He enlisted and sailed with the 24th Reinforcements, Wellington Battalion. Wounded in France, Lieut. Grace returned to New Zealand on the hospital ship Marama in 1919, and then joined the legal branch of the Public Trust Office, Wellington, before leaving to enter the Native Department. He was a brother of Lieut. T. P. M. ("Hami") Grace, who was killed at Gallipoli. He is survived by his father and five sisters and two brothers—Miss B. W. Grace (London), Mrs. A. P. Ornberg (Maryborough), Mrs. B. S. Gribbin (Wellington), Mrs. H. S. Pox (Christchurch), Mrs. D. Barling (Wellington), Dr. E. F. T. Grace (London), and Mr. H. H. Grace (Wellington). The body will be taken to the village of Waihi, Lake Taupo, where his mother was buried

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 January 2025 - Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 63, 15 March 1932, Page 8

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16787722
  Further Reference
• Bennett, Nelson. Always in my thoughts. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 20 April 2022.
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/grace-brothers
  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.
  60: 17
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 82 - The Pakeha (Mark III) : being the journal of the Left Wing of the 24th New Zealand Reinforcements. Burge, W.R. (William Ralph), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 24th Reinforcements : 1917