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Final Rank:

Private

First Name/s (as per enlistment record)

Araki

Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)

ANGENE

Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1205
New Zealand Maori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent

Also Known As

Ariki ANGENE
Angene ANGENE

Date of Birth

31/12/1895

Place of Birth

Atiu, Cook Islands

WWI service records state that he was born on Rarotonga, however his two marriage certificates state that he was born on Atiu

Date of Death

27/01/1956

Place of Death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death Registration Number

RARO19560089

Headstone/Grave Location

Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of Kin

Angene (father), Avarua, Rarotonga

Additional Information

Enlisted 29 September 1915 in Rarotonga. Disembarked at Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked for France from Port Said with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. Detached to the New Zealand Tunnelling Company (NZETC) 9 December 1916 to 20 February 1917. Detached to the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 26 February 1917. Transferred to the Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918. Embarked for Egypt from Marseilles 21 January 1918. Disembarked at Alexandria 4 February 1918. Marched in from Moascar and posted to Training Regiment 5 February 1918. Admitted to hospital at Kantara and Moascar between 22 and 23 August 1918. Discharged to Duty 8 October 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

Date of death:
27/01/1956 (as per Cook Islands death register)
28/01/1956 (as per military headstone)

Grave refurbished 2023

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