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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:
Second Lieutenant
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
James Clarence
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
GRIFFITH
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
12/2580
Auckland Infantry Battalion
Royal Flying Corps
Also Known As
Date of Birth
12/02/1893
Place of Birth
Auckland, New Zealand
Date of Death
14/08/1970
Place of Death
Hūnua, Auckland, New Zealand
Death Registration Number
NZ1970/46780
Headstone/Grave Location
Papakura Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Lawn Row K, Plot 38
Next of Kin
Rev S. Griffith, Dunedin, New Zealand (father)
Ivy Scott Griffith (wife)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Address and employer before enlistment: A. B. Donald Ltd., Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Travelled to New Zealand from Rarotonga in March 1915 and in April 1915 enlisted at Trentham Military Training Camp, Trentham, Upper Hutt, near Wellington New Zealand.
He was discharged from the Auckland Infantry to a commission in the Royal Flying Corps in September 1916.
Shot down over hostile territory 12 July 1917 and was recorded as a Prisoner of War in Karlsruhe, and later in Augustabad, Bei Nau-Brandenburg and in Schweidnitz, Schlesien. Repatriated to New Zealand 25 December 1918.
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