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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Jim

Last name

PORI

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1216
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

David Simpson Pori MAKEA

Date of birth

1896

Place of birth

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Date of death

08/06/1970

Place of death

Hastings, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1970/33060

Headstone/grave location

Waiputa Māori Cemetery, Hastings, New Zealand

Next of kin

Pori Te Pou Makea (father), Te Pivai Simpson (mother)

Additional information

Enlisted in Rarotonga 27 September 1915 and disembarked ex. SS Navua in Suez 15 March 1916. Embarked for France from Port Said 9 April 1916 with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 5 March 1918. Embarked for New Zealand ex SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

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