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Mutifui Lui

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Headstone, Magiagi Cemetery, Samoa (photo B. Ralston, 2010) - No known copyright restrictions

Headstone, Magiagi Cemetery, Samoa (photo B. Ralston, 2010) - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Mutifui AWMM
  • Surname
    Lui AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Lui AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1069 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Protestant, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1894 AWMM Alofi, Niue AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 29 September 1915 AWMM Alofi, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Tiahi (wife), Alofi, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 5 February 1916 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • 1914-1916 Egypt AWMM
    • 1914-1919 Western Front AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1069 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 29 September 1915 AWMM
    Age 21 AWMM
    Settler/Civilian AWMM
    Alofi, Niue AWMM
  • 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
    • Height, Unknown Period AWMM
      5 foot 7 inches AWMM
    • Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
      161 pounds AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      Invalided to New Zealand Corinthic June 1916 AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      Epsom Convalescent home AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Departed Alofi, Niue Island on 14 October 1915 on board SS Te Anau along with his brother 16/1177 Vasau (Pointer 2000, p. 16).

    Arrived Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand on 19 October 1915 (Pointer 2000, p. 18).

    Sailed from Port Said, Egypt, to Marseilles, France, on board SS Canada on 9 April 1916. (Pointer 2000, p. 173)

    Departed England on 17 June 1916 on board HT Corinthic bound for New Zealand. (Pointer 2000, p. 174)

    Arrived Auckland, New Zealand on 6 August 1916. (Pointer 2000, p. 59)

    Served as Lui AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    5 October 1960 AWMM
    Age 70 AWMM
    Apia, Western Samoa AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Magiagi Cemetery, Apia, Samoa AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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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/R10920980
    Further Reference
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      25: 4 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. (2000). pp. 16, 18, 59, 94, 167, 170, 173, 174. 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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