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Jack Kake

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Jack AWMM
  • Surname
    Kake AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • John Kake AWMM
    • Haki Whangawhanga KAKE Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 May 2025 - NZ BDM Marriage Records
  • Service number
    • WWI 16/1293 AWMM
    • WWII 800056 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    31 July 1896 AWMM Kiripaka, Northland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • WW1 Mrs Katherine Kake (mother), Kiripaka, Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • WW2 W. Kake (wife), Whangarei AWMM
  • Relationship status
    1922 Haki Whangawhanga (Jack) KAKE married Louisa BROTT Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 May 2025 - NZ BDM Marriage Records

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 10 September 1915 AWMM
      Age 19 AWMM
      Bushman/Civilian AWMM
    • WW2 16 June 1940 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
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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Last known rank

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Biographical information

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.

    Second World War enlistment document states his date of birth as 1 April 1897. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    30 October 1962 AWMM
    Age 65 AWMM
    AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
    Whangarei Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 24 May 2025 - Military Record
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Cody, J.F. (1961). New Zealand Engineers, Middle East. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      25: 1 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
    • Neill, J.C. (Ed.). (1922). The New Zealand Tunnelling Company, 1915-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs. AWMM

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24 May 2025Lorraine Mona GisborneResearcher

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