Brief Life History of Te- Kopa
When Te- Kopa Reihana was born about 1914, in Otaua, Waikato, New Zealand, his father, Toru Reihana, was 29 and his mother, Iritana Edith Harris, was 31. He died on 8 December 1979, at the age of 66.
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World Events (8)
1914
Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.
1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica
The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations.
1939
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
Name Meaning
Either a variant spelling of Ty or a transferred use of the surname, a local name for someone who lived by a common pasture, Middle English tye.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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