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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)
Kiro Luke
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
ADAM
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
16/1007
New Zealand Maori (Pioneer) Battalion
Also Known As
Kiro Luke Adam MANUELA
Date of Birth
01/06/1893
Place of Birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of Death
7/10/1917
Place of Death
Belgium
Death Registration Number
NZ1918/65677
(post war death registration)
Headstone/Grave Location
New Irish Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Next of Kin
Manuel Luke (Step brother)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/451902/kiro-luke-adam/
On enlistment on the 12th of July 1915, he was employed in Auckland New Zealand. Arrived Suez 26 October 1915. Posted to Auckland Infantry Battalion 19 January 1916. Embarked for France 9 July 1916 and re-joined with the New Zealand (Māori Pioneer) Battalion as a bomber 9 November 1916. Returned from leave to "In the Field" 29 July 1917. Killed in Action while with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 7 October 1917. Buried “in the field” 3 miles north east of Ypres, Belgium, and later moved to New Irish Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
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