Solomon Isaacs
Born 21 Dec 1894 - Died 3 Sept 1923
- Service number
- WWI 16/1033 AWMM
- Also known as
- Isaaka Solomona AWMM
- Solomona Isaacs AWMM
- Solomona Itaaka AWMM
- Solomana Isaaka AWMM
- Soloman Isaacs AWMM
- Solomon Issacs AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Private Military personnel file New Zealand Rarotongan Company Military personnel file
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Solomon AWMM
- Surname
- Isaacs AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
- Isaaka Solomona AWMM
- Solomona Isaacs AWMM
- Solomona Itaaka AWMM
- Solomana Isaaka AWMM
- Soloman Isaacs AWMM
- Solomon Issacs AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 16/1033 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
- Presbyterian, Christian AWMM
Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 21 Dec 1894 Military personnel file
- Date of birth
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- Place of birth
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- Birth notes
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- Address before enlistment
- WW1 Pre Oct 1915 AWMM Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- WW1 Henry Issacs, Tautu, Aitutaki, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM
- Isaac Solomona (grandson), Tepora Solomona (grand daughter); Rarotonga, Cook Islands: Teariki Solomona (grandson); Aitutaki, Cook IslandsPublic - Isaac - 29 January 2015 - family
- Relationship status
- 1919 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM
- Aug 1922 AWMM Married AWMM
Teremoana Tikiteina AWMM - When he was discharged he returned to home island - Aitutaki, Cook Islands. Married Teremoana Tikiteina they had one son, Solomona Junior Solomona before he passed away.Public - Isaac - 29 January 2015 - family
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 16/1033 AWMM
- Military service
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
- British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 20 Oct 1915 Military personnel file
Age 20 AWMM
Labourer/Civilian Military personnel file - Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 05 Feb 1916 Military personnel file
HMNZT 42 or HMNZT 43 or HMNZT 44 Military personnel file Vessel was Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua AWMM Corporal/Military Military personnel file Rarotongans, attached A Company Military personnel file Maori Contingent AWMM
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
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- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
Bronchitis and pneumonia AWMM - Sep 1916 AWMM Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
Admitted sick, France AWMM - Oct 1916 AWMM Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
Convalescent, Codford from Brokenhurst AWMM - Aug 1918 AWMM Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
Admitted, pneumonia, dangerously ill, Cairo AWMM - Dec 1918 AWMM Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
Embarked for NZ on the Malta AWMM - Height, WWI AWMM
5' 8" AWMM - Weight, WWI AWMM
168 lb AWMM
- Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 7 Mar 1919 Military personnel file
No longer physically fit AWMM
Private Military personnel file
New Zealand Rarotongan Company Military personnel file - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Listed by National Archives NZ as Soloman Isaacs and on the embarkation roll as Solomon Issacs.
Husband of Teremoana Tikiteina, father to Solomona Solomona.
His brother and father both served in the army. He was the older brother of Private Tauei ISAACS 5th Rarotongan Contingent
One of two Cook Islanders to inscribe their names in the caverns of Arras. One of only 47 Cook Island men to serve in France. Member of the Maori Pioneer Battalion attached to the New Zealand Tunnelling Company.
War service: Egypt, Western Front, Palestine
Disembarked Suez, 15 March 1916.
Embarked Port Said to join the British Expeditionary Force, France, 9 April 1916.
Admitted to No 11 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 9 September 1916 (trench fever); transferred to England, 12 September 1916, and admitted to No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, 14 September 1916; discharged to NZ Command Depot, Codford, 7 October 1916.
Proceeded from Sling Camp overseas to France, 15 November 1916.
Attached to NZ Entrenching Company, in the field, 8 December 1916.
Attached to Pioneer Bn, in the field, 26 February 1917.
On leave, 26 August 1917; rejoined Bn from leave, 7 September 1917.
Detached to Rarotongan Company, 14 January 1918.
Embarked Marseilles for Egypt, 21 January 1918; disembarked Alexandria, 4 February 1918.
Posted to Rarotongan Company, in the field, 7 March 1918.
Admitted to 128th C. Field Ambulance, 17 May 1918 (not yet diagnosed); discharged to duty, 26 May 1918.
Admitted to 33rd Clearing Hospital, Jaffa, 2 August 1918 (pneumonia: dangerously ill); reported out of danger, 6 August 1918; transferred to No 2 Australian General Hospital, 13 September 1918; to Aotea Convalescent home, Heliopolis, 13 September 1918; to Rest Camp, Port Said, 19 September 1918.
Commenced return to New Zealand from Suez on board RL 'Malta', 14 December 1918; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of illness: pneumonia, bronchitis), 7 March 1919.
Total war service: 3 years 139 days (of which 2 years 357 days were abroad) AWMM
About death
- Death
- 3 Sept 1923 Military personnel file
Age 27 AWMM - Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
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- Death notes
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- Cemetery
- Tautu, Aitutaki, Cook Islands AWMM Family plot AWMM
- Cemetery name
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- Grave reference
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- Obituary
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- Memorial name
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- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board, RSA Rarotonga AWMM
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18052261
Sources Used - Solomon Isaacs’s courage and commitment
By: New Zealand Post
http://ww100.govt.nz/solomon-isaacs-courage-and-commitment
Further Reference - Cook Island News: Biography
http://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/outer-islands/item/58090-aitutaki-warrior-s-story-of-courage-and-commitment/58090-aitutaki-warrior-s-story-of-courage-and-commitment
Further Reference - Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- References
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
25: 2 - NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
- 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. 3: 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.
- This record was partially compiled from information kindly provided by Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Walker, Cook Islands Military History Research Project
- Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
- Neill, J.C. (Ed.). (1922). The New Zealand Tunnelling Company, 1915-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
- Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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