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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

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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