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John Haora

  • Service number
    WWI 20647 AWMM
  • Also known as
    John Hughe HAORA Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2025 - Military Record
  • 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
    John AWMM
  • Surname
    Haora AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    John Hughe HAORA Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2025 - Military Record
  • Service number
    WWI 20647 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
    22nd June 1891 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2025 - Military Record
  • Place of birth
    Tamatarau, Whangarei Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2025 - Military Record
  • Birth notes
    Son of Caroline HAORA Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2025 - Military Record
  • Address before enlistment
    Limestone Island Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2025 - Military Record
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs Caroline Haora (mother), Tamatarau, Whangarei Heads, Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Single
    1929 John Hughe HAORA married Eileen Annie RUSSEK Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 July 2025 - Military Record & NZ BDM Marriage records

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 Unknown AWMM Farmer/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

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. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    23 March 1954 AWMM
    Age 63 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Maunu Cemetery, Cemetery Road off State Highway 14, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand AWMM
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  • Obituary
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  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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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. (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
    • 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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