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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Rataro

Last name

TEKIA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19304
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Rataro Enua TIKIA
Rataro ENUATEKIA
Rataro TE KIA

Date of birth

1896

Place of birth

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Date of death

13/01/1961

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19610007A

Headstone/grave location

Kavera, Arorangi, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Enua Tikia (father), Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted at Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Disembarked at Suez 27 December 1916. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 17 April 1917. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

SS Malta embarkation roll record his name as 'Takia Rataro Enua'.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board record his name as 'R. Enuatikia.
Enlistment and military documents record his name as 'Rataro Tekia'.
Later correspondence record his name as 'Te Kia'.
His surname is spelt as 'Tikia' on his headstone

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