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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:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
James
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
SILVA
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
16/1541
4th Maori Reinforcements, New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
Rarotongan Company
Also Known As
James Victorino SILVA
Date of Birth
Unknown
Place of Birth
New Zealand
Date of Death
12/6/1963
Place of Death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death Registration Number
NZ1963/38581
Headstone/Grave Location
Waikumete Cemetery & Crematorium, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of Kin
Mrs Silva (wife), Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Ethel Elizabeth Silva (mother)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp 8 April 1916. Joined New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 30 October 1916 in France and WIA (Wonded in Action) with a GSW (Gun Shot Wound) to the leg 7 June 1917. Treated in hospitals in France and 2nd NZ General Hospital, United Kingdom. On return to the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion he was transferred to the Rarotongan Company 24 April 1918 and posted to 3rd New Zealand Depot Unit of Supply, Marseille, 29 April 1918 to await shipment to Egypt. Embarked for Egypt 5 June 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 15 July 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918. Discharged 7 March 1919.
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