Filitoua

Surname

Filitoua AWMM

Also known as

Filitona AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1046 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Protestant, Christian AWMM

Birth

1894 Military personnel file

Address before enlistment

WW1 Makefu, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Felevehetupe (wife), Makefu, 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 Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1046 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 30 Sep 1915 Military personnel file 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 Private Military personnel file Rarotongans, Attached B Company Military personnel file 3rd Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
Pneumonia AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private Military personnel file
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion Military personnel file

Death

19 Jun 1916 Military personnel file
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Sickness AWMM

Cemetery

Hornchurch (St Andrew) Churchyard, Essex, England AWMM I. AWMM

Memorial name

Alofi National Memorial, Niue AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21002705
  Sources Used
• Alofi National Memorial, Niue
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/alofi-national-memorial-niue
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/357005/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/357005
  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.
  pp. 13, 18, 50, 53, 54, 131, 134, 170, 172, 183 n16.
• Pointer, M. (2015). Niue 1774-1974 : 200 years of conflict and change. Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• 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.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.