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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:
Corporal
First name/s (as per enlistment record)
Robert
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
NICHOLAS
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60718
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Meau NICHOLAS
Meau MANAVAROA
Date of birth
10/03/1896 (as per military service record)
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
21/01/1959
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19590004
Headstone/grave location
Avana, Rarotonga, Cook Islands (Nicholas family cemetery)
Next of kin
Miss Nga Pokotiao Nicholas (sister), Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Manavaroa (father), Mokora (mother), Mrs Te Keru Tupangaial (listed as widow on death registration)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
21/01/1959 (as per Cook Islands death register)
22/01/1959 (as per military headstone)
Another soldier's military records are also in the Archives New Zealand online record.
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