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Rangi Louis Hawira

  • Service number
    WWI 16/1302 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Rangi Louis Hanganoa HAWIRA Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 31 October 2024 - https://www.geni.com/people/Rangi-Hawira/6000000133387105967
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Rangi Louis AWMM
  • Surname
    Hawira AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Rangi Louis Hanganoa HAWIRA Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 31 October 2024 - https://www.geni.com/people/Rangi-Hawira/6000000133387105967
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1302 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
    3 September 1896 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 July 2024 - https://www.geni.com/people/Rangi-Hawira/6000000133387105967
  • Place of birth
    Kaungaroa, Whanganui Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 July 2024 - https://www.geni.com/people/Rangi-Hawira/6000000133387105967
  • Birth notes
    Son of Winiata Puhaki Hawira Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 July 2024 - https://www.geni.com/people/Rangi-Hawira/6000000133387105967
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    T. Hawira (brother), Karioi, Main Trunk, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Husband of Minnie Eruini Hawira Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 July 2024 - https://www.geni.com/people/Rangi-Hawira/6000000133387105967

Service

Wars and conflicts

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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 Unknown AWMM Shepherd/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
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Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
    Wounded 1916 AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Listed as wounded, Chronicles of the NZEF 1916 (2) p. 40

    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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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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  • Rang Louis HAWIRA died June 17, 1979 aged 82ys in Raetihi
    Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 5 August 2024
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Sources

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. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
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    • 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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31 October 2024Lorraine Mona GisborneResearcher

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