Mologa Ah Mu

Forenames

Mologa AWMM

Surname

Ah Mu AWMM

Also known as

• Maloga AWMM
• Maloga Ah Mu AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1405 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AWMM

Birth

16 Feb 1894 AWMM

Birth notes

Son of John Ah Mu

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 July 2024 - Military Record

Address before enlistment

Apia, Samoa

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 July 2024 - Military Record

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs Aifai Ah Mu (wife), Apia, Samoa, Pacific Islands AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 06 May 1916 AWMM Married/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Sinai & Palestine AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1405 AWMM

Military service

Posted to Pioneer Battalion; Rarotongan Company AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 05 Jan 1916 AWMM Engineer/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Private AWMM 4th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 8 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  130 pounds AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  brown AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  dark AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  black AWMM

Last rank

WW1 23 Mar 1919 AWMM
Termination of period of engagement AWMM

Death

22 Oct 1961 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22269537
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22202825
  Further Reference
• Corporal Frank Roberts Comes Home’, Samoa Times, 9 March 1918
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SAMZ19180309.2.8
  Further Reference
• Samoan soldiers in WWI
  http://samoaww1.webs.com/
  Further Reference
• Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
  https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  31: 26
• Kennedy, A. (2015). Chinese Anzacs : Australians of Chinese descent in the defence forces 1885-1919 (revised to include New Zealand-born Chinese of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914-1919) (2nd ed). Wellington: New Zealand Chinese Association.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Liava'a, C. (2013). Le fitafita mai Samoa = The force from Samoa : soldiers from the Samoan Islands in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Polygraphia.
• 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.
  p.134
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• HMNZT 52.The bugle call of the 12th NZ Reinforcements : being the souvenir number of The Mokoia chronicle.(1916). On board ship: Published on board H.M.N.Z. Transport no. 52 "S.S. Mokoia".
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.