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Paua Ngamata

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  • Service number
    WWI 84533 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Ngamate Paua AWMM
    • Tau Ngamata AWMM
    • Paua Ngatama AWMM
    • Ngatama Poona AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
    WW1 Private AWMM
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Roll of honour, listing World War 1 soldiers from the Cook Islands, courthouse, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Ref: 1/1-006730-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23180172

Roll of honour, listing World War 1 soldiers from the Cook Islands, courthouse, Avarua, Rarotonga, C …

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Paua AWMM
  • Surname
    Ngamata AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Ngamate Paua AWMM
    • Tau Ngamata AWMM
    • Paua Ngatama AWMM
    • Ngatama Poona AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 84533 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Church of England, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    Circa 1900 Cook Islands WW1 Project Atiu, Cook Islands Cook Islands WW1 Project
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Atiu, Cook Islands, Rarotonga AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Teaumokopuna Paua (father), Atiu, Cooks Islands/Rarotonga AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Single/WWI AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 84533 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    WW1 7 December 1918 AWMM Private AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Recorded on the Cook Islands Roll of Honour as N Taua. Source: Weddell, Pacific Soldiers, p.189.

    Listed on the Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board, RSA Rarotonga, as 'Pte Taua N'. Source: WW1 NZEF ANZAC Soldiers Research Project.

    Not listed on the Atiu cenotaph April 2019

    Did not embark overseas on active service. The soldiers who enlisted in the 4th & 5th contingents did not leave New Zealand due to the armistice. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    4 June 1960 AWMM
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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland AWMM Plot 4, Row 3, Service Persons Area J, AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board, RSA Rarotonga AWMM

Roll of Honour

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  • Louis Ngamata Po'ona is my Grandfather and I am a direct descendant
    Public - Robyn - Direct descendant - 21 August 2021
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  • Louis Ngamata Po'ona is my Grandfather and I am a direct descendant
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  • My Grandfather Louis Ngamata Poona aka Roo
    This is his Father
    Public - Phillipina - Direct descendant - 25 April 2020
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R20799619
    Further Reference
  • References
    • 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. AWMM
      p.189 AWMM
    • ‘Finding Our Way Back to Atiu’, Parts 1 -4, Cook Islands Television News/Cook Islands WW1 NZEF ANZAC Soldiers Research Project, 2019 AWMM
    • This record was partially compiled from information kindly provided by Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Walker, Cook Islands WW1 NZEF ANZAC Soldiers Research Project AWMM

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21 August 2021RobynSydney, AustraliaDirect descendant
25 April 2020PhillipinaAuckland Direct descendant

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