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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 (as per enlistment record)
Brown
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
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
Archives New Zealand online service record
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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