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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
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)
Archives New Zealand online service record
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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