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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Taere
Last name
TEAEA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60662
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
23 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date of death
02/01/1928
Place of death
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Death registration number
AITU19280469
Headstone/grave location
Arutanga, Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Teaea (father), Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 13 March 1918. Disembarked SS Port Lyttleton at Suez 4 August 1918. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Contracted malaria and admitted to 33rd Casualty Clearing Station, Beirut and returned from Beirut to Alexandria by sea 22 November 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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