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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
Iako
Last name
PIRA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84502
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Iako
Date of birth
19 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Samoa
Date of death
09/06/1920
Place of death
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Death registration number
AITU19200141
Headstone/grave location
Tautu Road, Tautu, Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tokari Pira (brother), Pukapuka. Iako (father, born Samoa) and Pira (mother, born Pukapuka)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Born in Samoa and living in Aitutaki at time of enlistment. Enlisted 12 June 1918 and discharged 7 December 1918. Died of tuberculosis in Aitutaki on 9 June 1920 however his death was not attributed to war service. He is also commemorated on the Pukapuka Roll of Honourl board as his mother was from Pukapuka and his father was Samoan.
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