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PENEAMENE, Tumaru
(Service number 16/284)

Tumaru Peneamene (left) and August Porete (Courtesy of K Whitau-Kean )

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (right panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #02)

Aliases	Tamati Tumaru
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farm labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Hohepa Peneamene, Morven, Canterbury, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Maori Contingent
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	A Company
Date	14 February 1915
Transport	Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand 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	18 September 1915	Age	33
Place of Death	United Kingdom to Gallipoli
Cause	Died of disease
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Birmingham (Lodge Hill) Cemetery, Warwickshire, England
Memorial Reference	B10. 608.
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of the late Maaka and Hohepa Peneamene, of Waihao, and brother of Ijaka Peneamarne (Isaac Peneamene); The Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists his full name as Tamati Tumaru Peneamene.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [30 Dec 2013]; Military Record - Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R20800259; SCRoll web submission by K Whitau-Kean 26 October 2018

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Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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