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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)
Dariu
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
OKORE
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19286
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tariu OKORE
Okore TARIU
Date of birth
15/01/1895
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
08/04/1968
Place of death
Wellington, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1968/33253
Headstone/grave location
Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand
Next of kin
Tariu (father), Atiu, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 31 July 1917 and discharged 20 March 1919. SS Malta Roll has his name recorded as 'Okore Dariu', while the Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'O. Tariu'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as “OKORE TARIU”.
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