Vilipate

Surname

Vilipate AWMM

Also known as

• Vilipata AWMM
• Wilipate AWMM
• Vipata AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1178 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1893 Military personnel file

Address before enlistment

WW1 Pre 1915 AWMM Liku, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Taufisione (mother), Liku, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM

Relationship status

1915 AWMM Married/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1178 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 29 Sep 1915 Military personnel file
Age  22 AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 3rd New Zealand Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

• 29 Sept 1915 AWMM Height, WWI AWMM
  5 foot 4 inches AWMM
• 29 Sept 1915 AWMM Weight, WWI AWMM
  133 pounds AWMM
• Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died from disease contracted, while training with the NZEF in New Zealand AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private Military personnel file
3rd New Zealand Maori Contingent (Niue Detachment) Military personnel file

His name is Vilipate, he has signed the Attestation Form as Vilipate. His surname is recorded as Wilipate on the cover sheet of the digital record by Archives New Zealand (2015) and his name was recorded as Vipata on his headstone (2010).

Next of Kin: Rarotonga (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

25 Dec 1915 Military personnel file

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

O'Neill's Point Cemetery, 122 Bayswater Avenue, Bayswater, North Shore, Auckland AWMM Block G. Plot 126 AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Alofi National Memorial, Niue AWMM
• Liku War Memorial, Niue AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Miltary personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22020760
  Sources Used
• Liku War Memorial, Niue
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/liku-war-memorial-niue
  Further Reference
• Alofi National Memorial, Niue
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/alofi-national-memorial-niue
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/4012553/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4012553
  Further Reference
• Georgina, White. Chaplain Hekataha Uea and Niue's contribution to WWI. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 1 October 2020.
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/chaplain-hekataha-uea
  Further Reference

References

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.