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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Brown

Last name

TIA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60698
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Date of birth

34 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Raiatea, Society Islands (French Polynesia)

Date of death

24/11/1939

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19390592

Headstone/grave location

Arorangi, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Tahiri Tia (wife), Arorangi, Rarotonga

Additional information

French citizen living in Rarotonga at time of enlistment. Posted to Rarotongan Company 20 September 1918 and employed as cook from 19 November 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919.

In April 2024, we were contacted by descendant Mereani Pirake who took us to the newly built grave. Plans are now underway to have a military headstone installed

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