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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

No first name on enlistment

Last name

MAHOA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1212
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Mahoa NAHI
Maoa NAHI
Mahoa NAHEI

Date of birth

1895

Place of birth

Bora Bora, Society Islands (French Polynesia)

Date of death

03/02/1956

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19560003

Headstone/grave location

Takuvaine Valley, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Piharao or Nehei (father), Parapara, Rarotonga, Teatuanui (mother), Urikore (wife)

Additional information

Attested at Rarotonga 24 September 1915. Arrived at Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked for France 9 April 1916. Wounded in action (shrapnel wounds) at the battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916. Embarked and returned to New Zealand per SS Rotorua 17 November 1916. Embarked on SS Paloona from Wellington to Rarotonga 1 March 1917 and was discharged medically unfit from the 1st Rarotongan Contingent 26 March 1917. Also known as Mahoa Nahei, and under this name he re-enlisted on 12 February 1918 into the 3rd Rarotongan Contingent, but was granted leave without pay on 20 April 1918. The National Archives of the Cook Islands record that he claimed a pension in 1920.

Date of death:
03/02/1956 (as per Cook Islands death register)
03/03/1956 (as per military headstone)

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