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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)
Only one name recorded on enlistment
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
TANEAO
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
16/1201
New Zealand Maori Pioneer Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Taneao KIRITAKAU
Date of Birth
10/1894
Place of Birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of Death
16/08/1969
Place of Death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death Registration Number
NZ1969/31180
Headstone/Grave Location
Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of Kin
Kiri (father), Matavera, Rarotonga
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 25 September 1915. Disembarked Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked at Port Said for France 9 April 1916. Mid and late 1916 he was admitted to a number of medical facilities for sickness as a result of aggravation to an old break in his arm. Mid 1917 again admitted to New Zealand Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, and then medically downgraded and classified as unfit for further service on 29 October 1917. Embarked for New Zealand at Liverpool on SS Ruahine and discharged in New Zealand 16 March 1918.
His grave is unmarked.
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