Alotau

Surname

Alotau AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1030 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Protestant, Christian AWMM

Birth

1894 Military personnel file

Address before enlistment

WW1 Alofi, Niue AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Folole (wife), Alofi, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 05 Feb 1916 AWMM Married/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1030 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 14 Oct 1915 Military personnel file
Age  21 AWMM
Settler/Civilian Military personnel file

Embarkation details

WW1 05 Feb 1916-15 Mar 1916 Military personnel file
HMNZT 44 Military personnel file Vessel was Navua AWMM Lance Corporal/Military Military personnel file Rarotongans, Attached B Company Military personnel file 3rd Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

• 29 Sept 1915 AWMM Height, WWI AWMM
  5 feet 9 inches AWMM
• 29 Sept 1915 AWMM Weight, WWI AWMM
  161 pounds AWMM
• 29 Sept 1915 AWMM Dental, WWI AWMM
  Normal AWMM
• 17 Nov 1916 AWMM Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
  Invalided to NZ on the Rotorua AWMM
• Died after Discharge from Wounds Inflicted or Disease Contracted while on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died from disease AWMM

Last rank

WW1 9 May 1917 Military personnel file
No longer physically fit for war service on account of illness contracted on active service AWMM
Private Military personnel file
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion Military personnel file

Next of Kin: Mrs Folole. Alofe, Niue Island (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

21 Jan 1920 Military personnel file

Cause of death

Died after Discharge from Wounds Inflicted or Disease Contracted while on Active Service AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Alofi National Memorial, Niue AWMM
• New Zealand Book of Remembrance AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22270947
  Sources Used
• Roll of Honour for three Niuean First World War soldiers (Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 12 October 2015).
  http://www.mch.govt.nz/roll-honour-three-niuean-first-world-war-soldiers
  Further Reference
• Alofi National Memorial, Niue
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/alofi-national-memorial-niue
  Sources Used
• Pacific Islanders in NZEF. Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/pacific-islanders-nzef
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/75452308/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/75452308
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  25: 3
• Pointer, M. (2000). Tagi tote e loto haaku - My heart is crying a little : Niue Island involvement in the Great War, 1914-1918. Alofi, Niue ; Suva, Fiji: Government of Niue ; Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific.
• Pointer, M. (2015). Niue 1774-1974 : 200 years of conflict and change. Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press.
• Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.