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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)
Naero
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
KIRI KIRI
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
19253
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Naero KIRIKIRI
Kirikiri NAERO
Date of Birth
1896
Place of Birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of Death
Unknown
Place of Death
Atiu, Cook Islands as confirmed by descendant Pati Tutaka Kaiaruna (aka Mama Naero) April 2025
Death Registration Number
Unknown
Headstone/Grave Location
Buried on the road to the Ana Takitaki Cave in Areora in a burial ground that is inaccessible
Next of Kin
Mrs Naero (mother), Atiu, Cook Islands
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga and embarked for Egypt on 16 November 1916 to arrive in Suez on 27 December 1916. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 31 July 1917 and detached to 97th Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery, between 11 October 1917 and 9 November 1917. Admitted to 129th Field Ambulance with measles on 25 August 1918 and then to 48th Stationary Hospital, Kantara 23 September 1918. Transferred to Aotea Convalescent Home between 2 October 1918 and 10 October 1918 before embarking for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board records name as 'K. NAERO'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as “KIRIKIRI NAERO”
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