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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Daniela
Last name
NIO
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19283
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Nio DANIELA
Nio WILLIAM
Ngakaara
Date of birth
20/07/1900 (to be confirmed)
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
08/07/1939
Place of death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death registration number
ATIU19390012
Headstone/grave location
Headstone located at Tengatangi Village, Atiu, Cook Islands.
Grave location unknown.
Next of kin
William Kelly (father), Areauri (mother), Taumarama (wife), Miss Maatira (sister), Maka Kea (uncle)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted on Rarotonga 1 July 1916 and arrived Egypt via SS Malwa 27 December 1916. Served with New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot and Rarotongan Company. Seriously ill with bronchitis in October and November 1918. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and disembarked Fremantle, Western Australia and quarantined 12 January 1919 with influenza. Returned to New Zealand from Sydney 7 May 1919. Discharged 19 July 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records name as 'N. Daniela'
Listed on the Atiu Cenotaph as 'N. DANIEL'
Headstone records name as 'N DANIELA'
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