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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
Samuel Innis
Last name
DANRELL
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
28688
Auckland Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Also known as
Sam
Date of birth
07/09/1895 (as per war service record)
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
31/03/1918
Place of death
Somme, France
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
Next of kin
Amalie/Amelia Maria Rasmine Ah Sam (nee Paulsen, later Danrell), mother, born Norway
Ching Ah Sam, father, born Canton, China
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Birth name was Samuel Innis Ah Sam
Died of wounds received in action
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/35268/samuel-innis-danrell/
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Headstone image source: https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/samuel-innis-danrell
Portrait source:
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-D1541
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-D1542
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-D1543
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 31-D1548
Further links
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