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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
Manuel
Last name
ANTHONY
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1182
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Anthony MANUELA
Anthony MANUERA
Date of birth
May 1895
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
10/05/1917
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1917/1739
Headstone/grave location
Devonport (O’Neill’s Point) Cemetery, Bayswater, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of kin
Luka Manuera (father), Avarua, Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 30 September 1915 in Rarotonga. Disembarked at Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked for France 9 April 1916. Admitted to 7th General Hospital, St Omer with German measles. Admitted to 8th Casualty Clearing Station 13 August 1916 and then to 35th General Hospital Calais 15 August 1916 and transferred to UK on Hospital Ship Newhaven and admitted to the 2nd London General Hospital 1 September 1916. 2 November 1916 he was transferred to the 2nd New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames with tubercle on the neck. Had three operations before being returned to New Zealand on the Hospital Ship Marama departing UK 3 January 1917. Died 10 May 1917 of tuberculosis at Auckland Hospital and is buried at Devonport (O’Neill’s Point) Cemetery, Auckland New Zealand.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/642907/manuel-anthony/
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Commemorative certificate image courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Further links
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