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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)

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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