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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:
Corporal
First name/s
John
Last name
MITCHELL
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60672
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
24/07/1890
Place of birth
Tahiti, Society Islands (French Polynesia)
Date of death
28/04/1934
Place of death
Tahiti, Society Islands (French Polynesia)
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Tahiti, Society Islands (French Polynesia)
Next of kin
Wina Mitchell (wife), Avatiu, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Allen Mitchell (father) born New York, USA, Maria (mother) born Mitiaro, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Rarotonga 9 February 1918 and at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company in the field 20 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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