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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Rima
Last name
KAUREVAI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19299
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Rimamotu KAUVAREVAI
Date of birth
1893
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
03/05/1953
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19530008
Headstone/grave location
Cemetery next to the Latter-day Saints Church, Avarua/Avatiu, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Kauvarevai (father), Mrs Motuanga (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Rarotonga 1 June 1916. He developed pneumonia on the troopship on the voyage to Egypt and was landed at Colombo on 14 December 1916 and admitted to the military hospital. Mrs Wigmore of 'The Springs', Guildford Crescent, Colombo, offered to take him into her house for convalescence after the convoy departed and he was to be called forward later. Arrived Suez 28 January 1917. Posted to Rarotongan Company 1 June 1917. Discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
03/05/1953 (as per Cook Islands death register)
04/05/1953 (as per military service records and headstone)
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