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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Pute

Last name

MANGA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/339
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion
Rarotongan Company

Also known as

Pute MONGA

Date of birth

1890 (as per enlistment record)

Place of birth

Wairoa North, NZ

Date of death

28/02/1956

Place of death

Helensville, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1956/32093

Headstone/grave location

Helensville Cemetery, Helensville, Auckland, New Zealand

Next of kin

Manga Pute (father), Rarotonga

Additional information

Enlisted in New Zealand at the Avondale Camp on 10th November 1914 after arriving there on the 17th October 1914. Served with the New Zealand Native Contingent in Malta in May 1915, and served at Gallipoli attached to the Auckland Infantry Regiment in January 1916. He served in the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion as the company cook and was transferred to the Rarotongan Company in June 1916.
Discharged 7th March 1919 on medical grounds due to ruptured shoulder muscles as the result of falling from a cliff in Gallipoli, and after he contracted malaria in Palestine. Served for a total of 4 years and 142 days.

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​Further links

Te Hokowhitu a Tū - Marking the departure of the Maori Contingent:
https://ww100.govt.nz/te-hokowhitu-a-tu-marking-the-departure-of-the-native-contingent

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