ANZAC

 16/333 private Henare Kanara

New Zealand Maori pioneer battalion (A company)

Henare Conrad is my great great grandfather.
He was born in 1885 and raised in Te Kao.
He had nine children to my great great grandmother
Waiwharangi Conrad. In 1914 Henare Conrad went to WW1 with his two
brothers Paki and Rapata where he changed his name to Henare “Kanara”\
so he wouldn't get mixed up with the germans.
On his journeys he traveled to the ANZAC cove in Gallipoli in 1915.
Embarked for France via Egypt in 1916 and battled in Belgium in 1917.
My great great grandfather was wounded twice in battle and also sent to
jail twice for not respecting the pakeha officers.
I feel that my great great grandfather was a very strong minded man because
he believed that him and his maori people were fighting a war that wasn’t theirs.
I was told that he didn’t salute a pakeha officer and that was a reason he was sent to
jail in the war. My great-great-grandfather was awarded a medal “The croix de guerre”
by the king of belgium. Sadly both of his brothers got TB during the war.
Paki got TB and died in the UK in 1918 and
Rapata got TB in the UK in 1918 so he was sent back
to NZ and died from the TB in 1919 in Awanui. My great great  grandfather
was discharged from the war in 1919 when he then returned home to Te Kao.