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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
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Final rank:
L/Cpl
First name/s (as per enlistment record)
Geofrey
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
GELLING
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84514
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Geoffrey GELLING
Date of birth
21 years of age on enlistment
London Missionary Society Register records date of birth as 02/05/1897
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
08/06/1954
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19540027
Headstone/grave location
Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Frank (father) of Manihiki, Cook Islands, Ngaevaeva Teina (mother) born Mangaia, Pati Cuthers (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 June 1918. Discharged 7 December 1918 due to the signing of the Armistice that ended WWI.
Headstone cleaned and relettered September 2024. Headstone lists his battalion as "Maori Battalion' which is incorrect. It should be 'Rarotongan Contingent'.
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