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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

No first name on enlistment

Last name

TAUARUA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1223
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Tauarua TEPURETU
Taua TEPURETU
Rua Taua TEPURETU

Date of birth

1892

Place of birth

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Date of death

15/02/1958

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19580071

Headstone/grave location

Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Rangi Tepuretu, Rarotonga

Additional information

Enlisted 30 September 1916. Disembarked Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked for France 9 April 1916 and served with New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. Detached to the Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918. Embarked for Egypt from Marseilles 21 January 1914 and posted to the Rarotongan Company in Palestine 15 February 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

Date of death:
15/02/1958 (as per Cook Islands death register)
17/02/1958 (as per military headstone)

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