Edmund Duffy
I whānau mai i te 18 Jul 1893 - I mate atu i te 1971
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 16/1384 AWMM
- WWI 16/1384Public - Mary Jeanette Vivian - Direct descendant - 12 August 2022 - Family History
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Lavea AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Edmund AWMM
- Edmund WilliamPublic - Mary Jeanette Vivian - Direct descendant - 12 August 2022 - Family History
- Ingoa whānau
- Duffy AWMM
- DuffyPublic - Mary Jeanette Vivian - Direct descendant - 12 August 2022 - Family History
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Lavea AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 16/1384 AWMM
- WWI 16/1384Public - Mary Jeanette Vivian - Direct descendant - 12 August 2022 - Family History
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- MalePublic - Mary Jeanette Vivian - Direct descendant - 12 August 2022 - Family History
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
- Catholic, Christian AWMM
- CatholicPublic - Mary Jeanette Vivian - Direct descendant - 12 August 2022 - Family History
Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 18 Jul 1893 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
- 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
- Apia, SamoaPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 October 2024 - Military Record
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- A. Duffy (brother), Apia, Samoa, Pacific Islands AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- 1924 Edmund DUFFY married FitoaPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 June 2025 - See attached Marriage Certificate
- SinglePublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 October 2024 - Military Record
- 1924 Edmund DUFFY married Fitoa
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 16/1384 AWMM
- WWI 16/1384Public - Mary Jeanette Vivian - Direct descendant - 12 August 2022 - Family History
- 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
- Victory Medal AWMM
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Overseer/Civilian AWMM
- 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 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Private AWMM 4th Reinforcements AWMM 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
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Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Edmund was born in Nanumea in the Tuvalu islands. His father was of Irish and his mother Cook Island descent. They moved to Western Samoa when Edmund was 5 or 6 years old. The Duffy family loved their time spent living in Tuvalu and gave their children Tuvaluan nicknames. Edmunds was Lavea and he named one of his sons Lavea also.
Duffy arrived on the Talune in Auckland, New Zealand from Apia, Samoa, with James Swanney and Robert Stowers on 31 January 1916.
War service: Egypt, Palestine, Western Front
Disembarked Suez, 23 June 1916.
Embarked Alexandria, 26 July 1916; disembarked Southampton, England, 7 August 1916.
Proceeded from Sling Camp overseas to France, 28 August 1916; posted to and join Pioneer Bn, in the field, 9 September 1916.
Admitted to No 2 NZ Field Ambulance, 8 December 1916 (bronchitis); transferred to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 13 December 1916; to No 1 Convalescent Depot, Boulogne, 16 December 1916; rejoined unit, in the field, 1 January 1917.
Admitted to No 3 NZ Field Ambulance, 12 April 1917 (bronchitis); transferred to No 2 NZ Field Ambulance, 13 April 1917; discharged to Reinforcements Camp, 20 April 1917; rejoined unit, 21 April 1917.
Wounded in action, 7 June 1917 (gun shot wound, left arm), and admitted to 9th Australian Field Ambulance; transferred same day to No 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station; to No 32 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, 8 June 1917; to England, 10 June 1917, and admitted same day to No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst; transferred to NZ Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, 26 June 1917.
Detailed for course of instruction, Bethnal Green, London, 16 July 1917.
Attached to strength of NZ Command Depot, Codford, 8 September 1917; on leave until 24 September 1917.
Proceeded overseas to France, 2 December 1917; rejoined unit, in the field, 25 December 1917.
Detached to Rarotongan Company, 14 January 1918.
Embarked from Marseilles for Egypt, 21 January 1918; disembarked Alexandria, 4 February 1918; marched into Training Regiment, Moascar, 5 February 1918.
Transferred to Rarotongan Company, Jaffa, 16 May 1918.
Admitted to 33rd Casualty Clearing Station, 13 July 1918 (malaria); transferred to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia, 23 July 1918; ischarged to duty, 2 August 1918.
Commenced return to New Zealand from Suez on board HT 'Malta', 13 December 1918; discharged, 7 March 1919.
Total war service: 3 years 33 days (of which 2 years 267 days were abroad) AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 1971 AWMM
- Rā i mate ai
- 24th March 1971Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 June 2025 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LV9Y-9FT/edmund-william-duffy-1893-1971
- Pakeke i te matenga
- 77yrsPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 June 2025 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LV9Y-9FT/edmund-william-duffy-1893-1971
- Wāhi Mate
- Apia, Tuamasaga, Upolu, Samoa,Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 June 2025 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LV9Y-9FT/edmund-william-duffy-1893-1971
- Te momo matenga
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- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
- He is buried in Apia, Tuamasaga, Upolu, Samoa.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 13 June 2025 - https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LV9Y-9FT/edmund-william-duffy-1893-1971
- Urupā
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- 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
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Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20999235
Further Reference - Corporal Frank Roberts Comes Home’, Samoa Times, 9 March 1918
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SAMZ19180309.2.8
Further Reference - Samoan soldiers in WWI
http://samoaww1.webs.com/
Further Reference - Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- HMNZT 52.The bugle call of the 12th NZ Reinforcements : being the souvenir number of The Mokoia chronicle.(1916). On board ship: Published on board H.M.N.Z. Transport no. 52 "S.S. Mokoia".
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
31: 26 - NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
- Liava'a, C. (2013). Le fitafita mai Samoa = The force from Samoa : soldiers from the Samoan Islands in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Polygraphia.
- Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- 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. 5: Includes portrait - Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
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