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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
Edmund
Last name
DUFFY
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1384
4th Māori Reinforcements, New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
Rarotongan Company
Also known as
Lavea
Date of birth
18/07/1893
1887 (as per headstone inscription)
Place of birth
Nanumea, Tuvalu, Ellice Islands
Date of death
1971
Place of death
Apia, Samoa
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Samoa
Next of kin
A. Duffy (brother), Apia, Samoa
Rosa (wife, as per headstone inscirption)
His father was of Irish descent, and his mother Cook Islands descent.
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 3 February 1916. Embarked Wellington SS Mokoia 3 May 1916, disembarked Suez 3 May 1916 and then disembarked Southampton, United Kingdom 7 Augut 1916, and posted to New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 9 September 1916. WIA (wounded in action) with a GSW (gun shot wound) to left arm on 10 June 1917 and admitted to 9th Australian Field Ambulance then 32nd Stationary Hospital Wimereux, France. Then moved to 2nd New Zealand General Hospital at Brockenhurst and then to the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital. Rejoined the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 25 December 1917. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918 and departed for Egypt. Joined the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment & Base Depot 15 February 1918 and joined the Rarotongan Company 17 May 1918. Returned to New Zealand via SS Malta. Discharged in New Zealand 7 March 1919.
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