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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Pio

Last name

TUAKANAORURU

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19290
2nd & 3rd Rarotongan Contingents 

Also known as

Moeroa TUAKANAORURU (name on death register)

Date of birth

17/01/1895

Place of birth

Mauke, Cook Islands

Date of death

05/08/1928

Place of death

Mauke, Cook Islands

Death registration number

MAUK19280006

Headstone/grave location

Ngaau Family Burial Ground, Pirikura, Kimiangatau, Mauke, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Are Auri (mother), Tuakana Oura (father), Akereu (wife)

Additional information

Enlisted 1 July 1916. When in Egypt he became repeatedly ill with tuberculosis and was medically boarded for discharge 31 May 1917. Invalided to New Zealand from Suez on SS Port Sydney and discharged 22 November 1917. He then enlisted in the 3rd Rarotongan Contingent at Rarotonga 4 February 1918 and embarked at Wellington 13 June 1918 and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked on SS Wandilla at Beirut 22 November 1918 and disembarked at Alexandria 24 November 1918 and was admitted to hospital. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Kaikoura 6 March 1919 and was discharged 9 July 1919.

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