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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)
TARINGA
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
16/1199
New Zealand Maori Pioneer Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Taringa MATEAENGA
Date of Birth
1895
Place of Birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of Death
15/08/1916
Place of Death
France
Death Registration Number
NZ1918/60937
(post war death registration)
Headstone/Grave Location
Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, France
Next of Kin
Mateaenga (father), Atiu
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 25 September 1915 and embarked for Egypt on SS Navua 5 February 1916. Embarked for France 9 April 1916 as part of the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. From 3 to 13 June 1916 he was admitted to the 7th General Hospital, St Omers, with measles and rejoined the battalion on 15 June 1916 at Armentieres. On 4 August 1916 he was admitted and was transferred from 2nd New Zealand Field Ambulance to the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, France. He died of pneumonia 15 August 1916 and is buried at Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, France
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as “TARINGA MATEAENGA”
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/204118/taringa/
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