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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
Rere
Last name
TAOI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19302
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Rere TAORI
Date of birth
1895
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
5/10/1923
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Nikao Cemetery, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Taoi (father), Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916. Disembarked ex. SS Malwa Suez 27 December 1916. Posted to the NZ Mounted Rifle Brigade at El Arish from January to March 1917 and then to the Rarotongan Company at Kantara. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918.
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