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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Makike

Last name

AVANUI

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60701
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Date of birth

20 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Date of death

04/01/1978

Place of death

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Death registration number

MANG1978001A

Headstone/grave location

Attested at Rarotonga 4 February 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to Training Regiment. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Sick to hospital 24 October 1918 and discharged 29 October 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918. Was ill on SS Malta and was off loaded for medical treatment in Fremantle, Australia and put into isolation 12 January 1919 with pnuemonia. Discharged 9 July 1919.

Buried in an unmarked grave in the family burial ground at Te Kopua, Tavaenga Rd, Mangaia, Cook Islands.

Next of kin

Ngavii Avanui (brother), Tukuvaine, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

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