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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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Highest Rank:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Duncan Donald
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
MUNRO
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
628048
Canadian Expeditionary Force,
47th Battalion, British Columbia Regiment
Also Known As
Date of Birth
13/08/1880 & 18/08/1880 (as per war service record)
12/08/1880 (as per headstone inscription)
Place of Birth
Achmelvich, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death
11/06/1954
Place of Death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
RARO19540024
Headstone/Grave Location
Arorangi, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of Kin
Teinangaro ki raro te Moana Matake'u Tuka (wife), (aka Teina J Tuka Munro as per headstone inscription)
Donald Munro (father)
Margaret McLeod (mother)
Additional Information
Link to war service record - click on third image to open up full record:
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=pffww&id=206939&lang=eng
'The Drovers Son and the Polynesian Princess'
https://www.historylinksarchive.org.uk/pictures/document/11500.pdf?r=25797
Images and Documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image Credits and References
Portrait image source: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/5683251
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