Vasau
I whānau mai i te 1894 - I mate atu i te 11 Jun 1916
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 16/1177 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private Military personnel file New Zealand Pioneer Battalion Military personnel file
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
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- Ingoa whānau
- Vasau AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWI 16/1177 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 1894 Military personnel file
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- WW1 Pre 25 Sep 1915 AWMM Alofi, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- WW1 Siline (mother), Alofi, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Jun 1916 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
- 1914-1919 AWMM Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) AWMM
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 16/1177 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 25 Sep 1915 Military personnel file
Age 21 AWMM
Settler/Civilian Military personnel file - Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- 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
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- 29 Sept 1915 AWMM Height, WWI AWMM
5 foot 7.5 inches AWMM - 29 Sept 1915 AWMM Weight, WWI AWMM
169 pounds AWMM - Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
Pneumonia AWMM
- 29 Sept 1915 AWMM Height, WWI AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private Military personnel file
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion Military personnel file - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Son of Aitagi, of Alofi, Niue Island, New Zealand.
Departed Alofi, Niue Island on 14 October 1915 on board SS Te Anau along with his brother 16/1069 Lui (Pointer 2000, p. 16).
Arrived Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand on 19 October 1915 (Pointer 2000, p. 18).
Sailed from Port Said, Egypt, to Marseilles, France, on board SS Canada on 9 April 1916. (Pointer 2000, p. 173)
"Soon after the arrival of the men from France 16/1177 Private Vasau of Alofi was hospitalized with pneumonia and placed on the dangerously ill list. He died at the depot hospital at Hornchurch on 11 June 1916 and two days later the first Niuean burial took place with the service in St Andrew's Church. The church diary records the burial of 'Private Vasau, a Christian soldier from Niue Island, one of the South Sea Islands, attached to the New Zealand Contingent.'" (Pointer 2000, p. 50)
Private Vasau was buried on 13 June 1916. Because of a shortage of space in the churchyard, he lies in a shared grave with Private Moki. (Pointer 2000, p. 183 n16)
He is listed in the register of Burials in the Parish of Hornchurch, Essex, 1916, No. 1346, p. 169.
Next of Kin: Mrs Siline, Alofi, Nuie Island (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 11 Jun 1916 Military personnel file
Age 22 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Died of Sickness AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Hornchurch (St Andrew) Churchyard, Essex, England AWMM I. AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
- Alofi National Memorial, Niue AWMM
Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22014894
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/357027/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/357027
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
25: 4 - 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. 16, 18, 50, 53, 54, 94, 130, 134, 171, 173, 183 n16. - 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.
- 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. 4: Includes portrait - Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- Information kindly provided by family
- 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.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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