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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
Benjamin
Last name
WISE
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
20803
9th Māori Reinforcements, New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
Rarotongan Company
Also known as
Date of birth
22/07/1895
Place of birth
Levuka, Fiji
Date of death
13/09/1955
Place of death
Suva, Fiji
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
George Wise (father), Levuka, Fiji
Josephine Rounds (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 19 July 1916 at Narrow Neck Camp. Embarked on HMNZT No.67 Tofua in Auckland 14 October 1916 and disembarked at Plymouth, United Kingdom 29 March 1916. Posted to New Zealand Pioneer Battalion in France 28 February 1917. In late 1917 he was admitted to a number of medical facilities in United Kingdom and rejoined the New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion in France 26 April 1918. Transferred to Rarotongan Company and moved from Etaples to Marseille with Private Meredith and to Egypt 7 May 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 3 July 1918. Returning home was sick on SS Malta and was off-loaded for medical treatment and quarantine at Fremantle, Australia on 12 January 1919. Arrived in Auckland on SS Manuka 13 March 1919 and discharged 28 April 1919. Returned to Fiji May 1919.
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