David Loma
I whānau mai i te 7 Jun 1893
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 20669 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Tevita AWMM
- David Lomu AWMM
- V. Lomu AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 7 Jun 1893 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
- Nuku'alofa, TongaPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 October 2024 - Military Record
- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
- Son of MAFU of Nuku'alofa, TongaPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 October 2024 - Military Record
- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- Nuku'alofa, TongaPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 October 2024 - Military Record
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- WW1 Mafu (father), Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Pacific Islands AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- 1936-1939 AWMM Palestine AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 20669 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
- New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF), Rarotongan Contingent AWMM
Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 24 May 1916 AWMM Assistant Harbourmaster/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 19 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 61 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM 7th 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
- Height, WWI AWMM
5 ft 7 in AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 7 Feb 1919 AWMM Private AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Employed as Assistant Harbour Master in Nukualofa prior to the war. Commemorated on the Tongan War Memorial as V Lomu. Source: Weddell, Pacific Soldiers, p.169.
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 24 May 1916. Embarked from Wellington 19 August 1916 on SS Aparima and disembarked at Devonport, UK. Posted to Sling Camp until 25 October 1916 and then to Etaples on 12 December 1916. Joined New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion 16 January 1917. On 14 January 1918 he was transferred to the Rarotongan Company in Palestine. He embarked on SS Hydaspes at Marseille 21 January 1918. Arrived in Egypt 5 February 1918 and posted to Rarotonga Company 15 February 1918. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta departing Egypt 14 December 1918 and put into isolation on Somes Island in Wellington harbour from 28 January 1919 to 7 February 1919. Discharged 7 February 1919. His name is recorded on the Tongan War memorial as ‘V. Lomu’. AWMM - David Loma or Lomu was an assistant Harbourmaster of Nuku’alofa, the son of Mafu. He enlisted in the 7th Maori Reinforcement as a Private and embarked from Wellington on August 16, 1916, for England. He is listed on the Tongan War Memorial.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 October 2024 - https://kanivatonga.co.nz/2018/04/tongans-remember-volunteers-from-the-islands-who-served-in-first-world-war/
- Employed as Assistant Harbour Master in Nukualofa prior to the war. Commemorated on the Tongan War Memorial as V Lomu. Source: Weddell, Pacific Soldiers, p.169.
Te matenga
- Matenga
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- 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
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- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- 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/R10920340
Further Reference - Tonga in World War I
http://tongainworldwar1.webs.com/nominalroll.htm
Further Reference - Online Cenotaph Feature
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/david-tevita-loma
Further Reference - Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
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.
38: 40 - Auckland Star
THIRTY-NINE ENLISTMENTS SINCE YESTERDAY. Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 123, 24 May 1916, Page 6 - Liava'a, C. (2011). Koe Kau To'a Na'anau Poletu: valiant volunteers - soldiers from Tonga in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Polygraphia.
- 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.
p.169 - Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- 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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