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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Lance Corporal
First name/s
No first name on enlistment
Last name
SOLOMONA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1196
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Peter SOLOMONA
Petie/Peter POKIPOKI
Solomona POKIPOKI
Date of birth
21/01/1892
Place of birth
Manihiki, Cook Islands
Date of death
03/04/1917
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1917/2007
(name registered is Peter Solomon)
Headstone/grave location
Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of kin
Poki Poki, (Teinaki Pokipoki), feeding (adoptive) father, Manihiki, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 30 September 1915 in Rarotonga and arrived in New Zealand for training 7 October 1915. Disembarked at Suez ex SS Navua 15 March 1916. Posted to the New Zealand Maori Pioneer Battalion and served in France. On 13 January 1917, he was evacuated to the New Zealand hospital ship Marama departing the United Kingdom 13 January 1917. Died 3 April 1917 in Auckland Hospital of stomach cancer and is buried at Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'LCpl S. POKIPOKI'.
Commonwealth War Graves Commissions commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/643076/peter-solomona/
"Son of Poki Poki, of Manihiki, Cook Islands, Cook Islands. Served on the Western Front, 1916".
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Commemorative certificate courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/643076/peter-solomona/
Further links
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