Waikohari AWMM

Tamarapa AWMM

Waikohari Tamarapa AWMM

WWI 16/418 AWMM

Male AWMM

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

11th August 1892 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 February 2025 - Military Records

Maketu Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 February 2025 - Military Records

Son of Matehaukore te Ahumua and Ngahina Ngaoko Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 February 2025 - Military Records

Unknown AWMM Ohangai, New Zealand AWMM

Tamarapa (father), Ohangai, Hawera, New Zealand AWMM

Pre 14 February 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Army AWMM

WWI 16/418 AWMM

WW1 Unknown AWMM Cowman/Civilian AWMM
AWMM

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 March 1915 AWMM from AWMM to Suez, Egypt AWMM

HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM A Company AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of disease AWMM

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Maori Contingent AWMM

12 October 1915 AWMM
Age 25 AWMM

Died of Disease AWMM

Portianos Military Cemetery, Lemnos, Greece AWMM V. B. 111. AWMM

Te Waikohari Tamarapa born 1892 in Maketu to Matehaukore te Ahumua and Ngahina Ngaoko. Te Waikohari was the younger brother of Te Ratahi Tamarapa (who we know by her common name Hinetaonga or Kui). After he was born, Te Waikohari was brought to Taranaki by his father and 'fostered' by Hineao for one year before returning to Maketu. Along with Te Ratahi (Kui) and his other siblings, Te Waikohari was educated at the Rotoiti school and later worked on his parents dairy farm at Ohangai. Private Te Waikohari 16/418 volunteered for enlistment in the NZ Expeditionary Force at Patea on 13 October 1914 and embarked for overseas service on 14 February 1915 with the First Maori Contingent. He served briefly in Egypt before leaving with the Contingent for Malta and landed on Gallipoli on 3 June 1915. Te Waikohari played his full part in the fighting which followed and in August was medically evacuated to Mudros, Greece where he eventually died of enteritis on 2 October 1915. Te Waikohari is buried in the Portianos Military Cemetary, Mudros (on the Greek Island of Lemnos). Te Waikohari was awarded the 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 February 2025 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/waikohari-tamarapa

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7823677
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130769.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/626987/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/626987
  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

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
  Vol1: 709 AWMM
• New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624. AWMM
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs. AWMM
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed. AWMM