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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

No first name on enlistment

Last name

ARII

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1139
"D" Coy., New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Ara ARII

Date of birth

1892

Place of birth

Mitiaro, Cook Islands

Date of death

24/08/1916

Place of death

France

Death registration number

NZ1918/59643
(New Zealand post war death registration)

Headstone/grave location

Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Nord, France

Next of kin

Pito Vaine (friend), Rarotonga, Takake (brother), Rarotonga

Additional information

Enlisted 27 September 1915 in Rarotonga. Disembarked from SS Navua at Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked with the New Zealand (Māori) Pioneer Battalion for France 9 April 1916. Admitted to the 50th Northumberland Casualty Clearing Station 19th of August 1916, and declared dangerously ill with pneumonia 21 August 1916. Died 24 August 1916 in France.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/44216/ara-arii/
"Son of the late Taiki and Kainga Arii, of Rarotonga, Cook Islands"

Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image credits and references

Headstone image credit: https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ara-arii

Commemorative certificate image courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Further links

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