Manuka then transfer to Morea at Sydney and Mashobra at Bombay for Suez.

War service: Egypt
Embarked Wellington, 8 February 1917; disembarked Suez, 4 April 1917, and posted to Wellington Mounted Rifles Training Regiment, Moascar.
Detached to School of Instruction, 3 June 1917; rejoined unit from detachment, 12 June 1917.
Transferred to NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade, 19 June 1917.
Detached to Training Regiment, Moascar, 8 February 1918 (dental treatment); marched in to Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, in the field, from Moascar, 12 May 1918.
Appointed Temporary Cook, 28 May 1918; relinquished appointment as Temporary Cook, 10 June 1918, 10 June 1918.
Admitted to NZ Mounted Field Ambulance, 4 October 1918 (accidental injury: burns, face: slight); transferred to 47th Stationary Hospital, Gaza, 7 October 1918; to 71st General Hospital, Giza, 19 October 1918 (malaria); discharged to duty, 6 November 1918.
Listed by Medical Board, 25 November 1918, for return to New Zealand (post malaria debility).
Commenced return to New Zealand from Suez on board RL 'Malta', 4 December 1918; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service), 26 February 1919.
Total war service: 2 years 187 days (of which 1 year 356 days was abroad) AWMM