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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

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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.

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