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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:
Corporal
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Findlay John
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
MONTGOMERY
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
2/810
New Zealand Field Artillery
Also Known As
Date of Birth
23/03/1894 (as per enlistment)
New Zealand Births, Deaths, Marriages records year of birth as 1895
Place of Birth
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Date of Death
03/10/1963
Place of Death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
RARO19630073
Headstone/Grave Location
Headstone location: RSA Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of Kin
Elizabeth Montgomery (wife)
Marion Jane Freeman (mother)
John Montgomery (father)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Rank is listed as Corporal on WWI discharge.
Rank of Gunner on headstone plaque.
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