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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:
Company Quartermaster Sergeant
First name/s
Edward Arrott
Last name
REID
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
71673
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Ted REID
Date of birth
05/05/1881
Place of birth
Auckland, New Zealand
Date of death
21/10/1948
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1948/20515
Headstone/grave location
Cremated remains scattered at Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of kin
Mrs J.E. Reid (wife), care of F.G. Smith, Taupiri, Waikato, New Zealand
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
At enlistment was employed as a horticulural instructor, Cook Islands Administration, Rarotonga. Enlisted 13 August 1917. Posted to 35th Reinforcements 15 November 1917 and then to Narrow Neck Military Training Camp as a Corporal 25 February 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company as Company Quarter Master Sergeant (CQMS) 18 September 1918. He replaced Sergeant Baisley Leger as CQMS of the Company. Returned on SS Malta and was discharged in New Zealand 7 Mar1919. Returned to Rarotonga in 1919 and was active in the RSA in the 1920s.
Received the CQM (Commonwealth Queens Medal) on 6th May 1935 for services to the Cook Islands.
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