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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:
Private
First name/s
No first name on enlistment
Last name
MAKIROA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1214
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Makiroa TAMAIVA
Makiroa CUTHERS
Date of birth
17/05/1893
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
30/11/1940
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19400671
Headstone/grave location
Arorangi, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tamaiva Teava (father), William Cuthers (adopted father), Koi (mother), Tutevera Heather (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 28 September 1915 in Rarotonga. Disembarked ex SS Navua at Suez 15 March 1916 to embark for France with the New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion 9 April 1916. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918 and embarked for Egypt 21 January 1918 to disembark at Alexandria 4 February 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 15 February 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'M. CUTHERS'.
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