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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
To be able to look forward, you must be able to look back
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Adolphe
Last name
MULLER
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1538
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion
Rarotongan Company
Also known as
Adolph MULLER
Date of birth
28/07/1895 (as per service record)
Place of birth
Tonga
Date of death
Unknown
Place of death
Unknown
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Philipp Gotthard Muller (born Zug Switzerland) and Lauititi O Manono Filomena (Laukiki) (born Samoa), (parents)
Miki Muller (brother), Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Mel Tatafu Fotofili (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
https://kavafarm.com/kava-family-tradition/
"Philipp and Lauititi (Laukiki) married on the 6 April 1889. They had two children in Vava’u, Michael Maria and Johanna. The family then moved to Tongatapu on the 24 October 1891 where the remaining 7 children were born; Robert, Franz, Adolph, Carolina, Michaela, Johann Friedrich and Ana. Of the 9 children, 7 were sent to Switzerland and the remaining 2 were Franz and Adolph.
Adolph also planted kava in his residence in Fatai and they were much larger than the average Kava plants. Adolph’s Kava were mainly used as offerings for the royal family of Tonga."
https://kanivatonga.co.nz/2018/04/tongans-remember-volunteers-from-the-islands-who-served-in-first-world-war/
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