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RATIMA, Nepia
(Service number 16/91)

Aliases N Ratana?
First Rank Private Last Rank Private

Birth

Date Unknown Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Torere, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin Wharekohuru Remana, Poroporo, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation 1st Maori Contingent
Unit, Squadron, or Ship B Company
Date 14 February 1915
Transport Warrimoo
Embarked From Wellington, New Zealand Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Maori Contingent

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 7 August 1915 Age 22
Place of Death Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Memorial Reference Panel 24
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru & Arowhenua War Memorial as N Ratana?

Biographical Notes

NB: The link to South Canterbury remains unclear (if any)

Sources

Cenotaph [5 Jan 2014]; Military Record - Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R20804270 - digitised

External Links

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Researched and Written by

John Sutherland (SC branch NZSG)

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