< Back Final rank: Private First name/s Kiro Luke Last name ADAM Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps 16/1007 New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion Also known as N/A Date of birth 01/06/1893 Place of birth Rarotonga, Cook Islands Date of death 7/10/1917 Place of death Belgium Death registration number NZ1918/65677 (post war death registration) Headstone/grave location New Irish Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Next of kin Manuel Luke (Step brother) Additional information Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/451902/kiro-luke-adam/ On enlistment on the 12th of July 1915, he was employed in Auckland New Zealand. Arrived Suez 26 October 1915. Posted to Auckland Infantry Battalion 19 January 1916. Embarked for France 9 July 1916 and re-joined with the New Zealand (Māori Pioneer) Battalion as a bomber 9 November 1916. Returned from leave to "In the Field" 29 July 1917. Killed in Action while with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 7 October 1917. Buried “in the field” 3 miles north east of Ypres, Belgium, and later moved to New Irish Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Archives New Zealand online service record https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE11505894 Images and documents Further links N/A Image credits and references N/A Previous Next

< Back Final rank: Private First name/s Kiro Luke Last name ADAM Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps 16/1007 New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion Also known as N/A Date of birth 01/06/1893 Place of birth Rarotonga, Cook Islands Date of death 7/10/1917 Place of death Belgium Death registration number NZ1918/65677 (post war death registration) Headstone/grave location New Irish Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Next of kin Manuel Luke (Step brother) Additional information Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/451902/kiro-luke-adam/ On enlistment on the 12th of July 1915, he was employed in Auckland New Zealand. Arrived Suez 26 October 1915. Posted to Auckland Infantry Battalion 19 January 1916. Embarked for France 9 July 1916 and re-joined with the New Zealand (Māori Pioneer) Battalion as a bomber 9 November 1916. Returned from leave to "In the Field" 29 July 1917. Killed in Action while with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 7 October 1917. Buried “in the field” 3 miles north east of Ypres, Belgium, and later moved to New Irish Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Archives New Zealand online service record https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE11505894 Images and documents Further links N/A Image credits and references N/A Previous Next