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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Mologa

Last name

AH MU

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1405
4th Māori Reinforcements, New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
Rarotongan Company

Also known as

Moronae Mologa AH MU
Maloga AH MU

Date of birth

16/02/1894

Place of birth

Vaitele, Tuamasaga, Upolu, Samoa

Date of death

22/10/1961

Place of death

Vaitele, Tuamasaga, Upolu, Samoa

Death registration number

Unknown

Headstone/grave location

Samoa

Next of kin

Mrs 'Ai'fai Ah Mu (wife), Apia, Samoa (as per war service record)
Jane Genevieve Taylor (wife)

Additional information

Enlisted 5 January 1916 at Trentham before training at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp. Disembarked at Suez 23 June 1916 to embark from Alexandra 26 July 1917 for Southampton, United Kingdom 26 July 1916 to arrive 7 August 1916. Left United Kingdom and joined the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion in the field in France on 28 August 1916. He was admitted to 1st Australian Field Ambulance between 9 December 1916 to 17 December 1916 with bronchitis and also the 2nd New Zealand Field Ambulance between 28 December 1916 to 21 January 1917 with bronchitis. On 14 January 1918 he was transferred to the Rarotongan Depot in Egypt and embarked from Marseille 21 January 1918. He arrived at the Rarotongan Company in Palestine 7 March 1918. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918. Discharged 23 March 1919 to return to Samoa on SS Talune.

Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image credits and references

Portrait image source: https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C69341

Portrait of Private Mologa Ah Mu (16/1405) at left, 4th Maori Contingent and Private James Swanney (16/1419) at right, 4th Maori Contingent. Portrait taken in Auckland sometime between attestation on 03 February 1916 and departure on 05 May 1916 for the SS Mokoia / HMNZT 52 in Wellington. Photographer: Percival Kingsford Daws (1872-1939), The Crown Studios, 266 Queen Street, Auckland. Image kindly provided from the Christina Heath collection. Image has no known copyright restrictions.

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