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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
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
Archives New Zealand online service record
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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