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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

No first name on enlistment

Last name

TAAU

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

84579
4th Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Taau TEUA

Date of birth

27 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Atiu, Cook Islands

Date of death

28/05/1933

Place of death

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Death registration number

AITU19330667

Headstone/grave location

Amuri, Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Teua (father), Vai (mother)

Additional information

Enlisted in Rarotonga 12 June 1918 and discharged in New Zealand 7 December 1918 due to the signing of the armistice when ended WW1.

In documents we have located, his wife is named as Ake Tui Elia.

Burial location cleared for agricultural purposes in 1974. In December 2022, descendants unveiled a military headstone at the location.

Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'T. Tena'.

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