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Henry Barrett

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  • Service number
    WWI 20666 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Henry Robert Barrett AWMM
    • Henare Robert Barrett AWMM
    • Hene Parete AWMM
    • Henry Aparima AWMM
    • Neri Huiatahi Barrett AWMM
    • Hene (Not known as Neri Huiatahi) Public - Phillip - Other relative - 30 July 2022 - Military records and Whakapapa books
    • Hene (Not known as Neri Huiatahi) Public - Phillip - Other relative - 30 July 2022 - Military records and Whakapapa books
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
    WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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WWI Roll of Honour (Huiatahi to Kerei). Ko taua pakanga nā Tiamana i whakaara hei pēhi i ngā mana o ngā iwi nunui o te ao. I tīmata nei i te 4 o ngā rā o Akuhata 1914, tata tonu ki te 5 tau e horiri ana. Nō te 11 o ngā rā o Noema 1918 ka mutu. [That war was initiated by Germany to suppress the authority of the great nations of the world. It began on the 4th day of August 1914 and continued for almost five years. It ended on the 11th day of November 1918.] Te Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kūiti (15 November 2025). © Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Henry AWMM
  • Surname
    Barrett AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Henry Robert Barrett AWMM
    • Henare Robert Barrett AWMM
    • Hene Parete AWMM
    • Henry Aparima AWMM
    • Neri Huiatahi Barrett AWMM
    • Hene (Not known as Neri Huiatahi) Public - Phillip - Other relative - 30 July 2022 - Military records and Whakapapa books
    • Hene (Not known as Neri Huiatahi) Public - Phillip - Other relative - 30 July 2022 - Military records and Whakapapa books
  • Service number
    WWI 20666 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    8 March 1895 AWMM
  • Date of birth
    8th March 1895 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 June 2024 - Military Record
  • Place of birth
    Ohura, King Country Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 June 2024 - Military Record
  • Birth notes
    Son of Robert BARRETT of Aria, Pio Pio Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 June 2024 - Military Record
  • Address before enlistment
    Aria Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 27 June 2024 - Military Record
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Robert Barrett (father), Aria, Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 22 May 1916 AWMM Factory Assistant/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
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

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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. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    28 January 1982 AWMM
    Age 86 AWMM
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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    WWI Roll of Honour, Ngāti Maniapoto's Memorial Flag Pole, Te Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kūiti AWMM

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Roa, T., Paki, M., & Pūrekireki Marae. (2015). Maiea te tupua : whānau accounts of Waikato-Maniapoto World War One veterans and one conscriptee : commemorating 100 years of World War One. Pirongia : Pūrekireki Marae. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      38: 40 AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM
    • McClintock, K., Turner, K., Searancke, M., Manawaiti, S., Meredith, P. (2024). Ngāti Maniapoto Ope Taua 1914 – 1918. 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
    • Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927. AWMM

Contributors

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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
29 June 2024Lorraine Mona Gisborne Comrade
27 June 2024Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher
30 July 2022PhillipRaglanOther relative

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