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Title for image: Sergeant Rotohiko Michael Jones
Describe the image: Rotohiko Michael Jones, enlisted February 29, 1916, at Narrow Neck Military Camp, aged 21, born at Poro-o-Tarao in the King Country, worked as a clerk and interpreter before enlistment. Michael Jones served on the Western Front in the first New Zealand Expeditionary Force from 1916 to 1919; he was a staff sergeant in the New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion. He was awarded the Military Medal for rescuing a wounded soldier under fire
Where did your information come from?: http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/67959573/Waikato-Maori-at-the-front
File created: 13 March 2016