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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
Charlie
Last name
SMITH
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60753
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tiare SMITH
Date of birth
23 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
01/04/1938
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19380379
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Charlie Smith (father), Titikaveka, Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 4 February 1918 and disembarked at Suez on 18 August 1918. Posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot until he was posted to the Rarotongan Company on 18 September 1918. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta and was discharged 20 March 1919.
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