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Tauranga Matui

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  • Service number
    WWI 16/667 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Tau AWMM
    • Tauranga Matthews AWMM
    • Tauranga MATIU Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 June 2024 - Military Record
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Six men standing on the porch of Edwin (Eruini) and Alice Taipari's home on Hill Street, Thames, circa 1915. Identified from left to right, top row: Tauranga Matui (aka Tau Matthews), uknown family friend previously identified as George Doherty, John Francis Stewart; bottom row: Edwin (Eruini) Hena Taipari, Harry McDonnell, and Matthew (Matt) Stewart. This image is part of the Paumea Horton McKay collection. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira (PH-97-2-22)

Six men standing on the porch of Edwin (Eruini) and Alice Taipari's home on Hill Street, Thames, cir …

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Tauranga AWMM
  • Surname
    Matui AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Tau AWMM
    • Tauranga Matthews AWMM
    • Tauranga MATIU Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 June 2024 - Military Record
  • Service number
    WWI 16/667 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    10 March 1890 AWMM Thames, Coromandel District, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
    Son of Mrs Whutuporo MATIU of Thames Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 16 April 2025 - Military Record
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Thames, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    David Matthews (brother), Thames, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 18 September 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 AWMM
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  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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Last known rank

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Biographical information

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  • Member of the Maori Pioneer Battalion attached to the New Zealand Tunnelling Company.

    43 members of the NZ (Maori) Pioneers served with the New Zealand Tunnelling Company and assisted in the late 1916 early 1917 preparations of the Arras caverns for the Battle of Arras. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    26 February 1961 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
    72yrs Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 June 2024 - Totara Memorial Park Cemetery Records
  • Place of death
    Thames Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 June 2024 - Totara Memorial Park Cemetery Records
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
    Totara Memorial Park, Thames Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 June 2024 - Totara Memorial Park Cemetery Records
  • Grave reference
    2RSA L - Plot 0039 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 June 2024 - Totara Memorial Park Cemetery Records
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Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Page No: 493 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
    • Neill, J.C. (Ed.). (1922). The New Zealand Tunnelling Company, 1915-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs. AWMM
    • Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927. AWMM

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16 April 2025Lorraine MonaGisborneResearcher

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