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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

Researched and Written by

John Sutherland (SC branch NZSG)

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