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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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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
No first name on enlistment
Last name
TAURA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1202
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Taura TUAKINA
Terekia TAURA
Date of birth
1894
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
07/01/1917
Place of death
Surrey, United Kingdom
Death registration number
NZ1918/60568
(post war death registration)
Headstone/grave location
Walton-on-Thames Church Cemetery, Surrey, United Kingdom
Next of kin
Tuakina (father), Atiu
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 28 September 1915 in Rarotonga. Disembarked at Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion for France from Alexandria 9 April 1916. Admitted sick to hospital "In the Field" 19 October 1916 and was evacuated through the 3rd NZ Field Ambulance, 3rd Canadian General Hospital, Hospital Ship St. Denis to 2nd New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, England. Died of tuberculosis 7 January 1917.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records name as 'T. TAURA'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as 'TAURA TUAKINA'.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/402091/taura
"Died 07 January 1917 Aged 23"
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Image sources:
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/walton-thames-nz-general-hospital-roll-honour
https://ww100.govt.nz/private-terekia-tauras-trench-art
Commemoration certificate courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/402091/taura
Further links
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