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Makea Pori Ngorois

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  • Service number
    WWI 19276 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Ngoroi Pori Makea AWMM
    • Ngoroio Makea Pori AWMM
    • Makea Pori Ngoroio AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Portrait of Corporal Makea Pori Ngoroio. Image courtesy of Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Walker, Cook Islands WW1 NZEF ANZAC Soldiers Research Project. Image is subject to copyright restrictions.

Portrait of Corporal Makea Pori Ngoroio. Image courtesy of Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Wa …

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Makea Pori AWMM
  • Surname
    Ngorois AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Ngoroi Pori Makea AWMM
    • Ngoroio Makea Pori AWMM
    • Makea Pori Ngoroio AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 19276 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    17 March 1889 AWMM Rarotonga, Cook Islands AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
    Son of PORI of Rarotonga, Cook Islands Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 18 October 2024 - Military Record
  • Address before enlistment
    Avarua, Rarotonga Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 18 October 2024 - Military Record
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Pori (father), Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Single Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 18 October 2024 - Military Record

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 19276 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 Labourer/Civilian 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

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Manuka then transhipped to "Malwa" at Sydney for Suez. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    21 January 1946 RARO19460174
    Rarotonga, Cook Islands RARO19460174
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Taputapu Atea Burial Ground, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands 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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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
      44: 1 AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. 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
    • 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

Contributors

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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
18 October 2024Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher
13 July 2021Suzie Etetera OtuCALJIEDirect descendant

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