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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
Ah Sin
Last name
RAKA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84520
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
27/01/1900
Place of birth
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date of death
21/06/1927
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19270792
Headstone/grave location
Nikao Cemetery, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Raka (father) born Aitutaki, Cook Islands, Ngatepaeru (mother) born Rarotonga, Terapii (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 14 June 1918. Left Rarotonga, arriving in Auckland New Zealand 21 June 1918 for training at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp. Discharged 7 December 1918 due to the signing of the Armistice that ended WWI. Embarked on SS Paloona for Rarotonga, and arrived in Rarotonga 15 December 1918. Embarked on the SS Paloona for Rarotonga 7 December 1918 and disembarked at Rarotonga 15 December 1918.
Private Raka's son died 9 December 1918 in Aitutaki at the age of 2 1/2 years, six months after his father enlisted in the NZEF and two days after he was discharged.
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