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Fanatoa

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Image of Gravestone at Waikaraka Park Cemetery, Auckland provided by Paul Baker March 2013 - No known copyright restrictions

Image of Gravestone at Waikaraka Park Cemetery, Auckland provided by Paul Baker March 2013 - No know …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
  • Surname
    Fanatoa AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Peter Kavi Fanatoa AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1036 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Protestant, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1895 Military personnel file Tamakautoga, Niue Military personnel file
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Pre Oct 1915 AWMM Tamakautoga, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Mago (father), Tamakautoga, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM
  • Relationship status
    1916 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • 1914-1916 Egypt AWMM
    • 1914-1919 Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1036 AWMM
  • Military service
    Niue Island Contingent Military personnel file
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 16 October 1915 Military personnel file
    Age 20 AWMM
    Settler/Civilian Military personnel file
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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
    • 13 October 1915 AWMMHeight, WWI AWMM
      5 foot 9 inches AWMM
    • 13 October 1915 AWMMWeight, WWI AWMM
      140 pounds AWMM
    • 13 October 1915 AWMMDental, WWI AWMM
      Good AWMM
    • 11 June 1916 AWMMHospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      Invalided to New Zealand on the Ulimaroa from Suez AWMM
    • 21 July 1916 AWMMHospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      Medical Board, Auckland 21 July 1916 reported a sprained ankle, possibly a fracture, occurred before enlistment, unable to march. AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Attested aboard the SS Te Anau

    The death notification in Military service file records Peter Kavi Fanatoa died in Auckland on 29 August 1935, and he is buried in the Hillsborough Cemetery. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    29 August 1935 Military personnel file; BDM, deaths
    Age 45 AWMM
    Military personnel file; BDM, deaths
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Hillsborough Cemetery, Hillsborough Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Area 6 Block 7 Lot No 31 AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      25: 3 AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
    • Pointer, M. (2015). Niue 1774-1974 : 200 years of conflict and change. Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press. AWMM
    • 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
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM

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