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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Taiki

Last name

TAKAKE

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19313
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Takake TAIKI

Date of birth

07/1885

Place of birth

Mitiaro, Cook Islands

Date of death

15/07/1946

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19460323

Headstone/grave location

Cemetery next to the Latter-day Saints Church, Avarua/Avatiu, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Taiki Henry (father), Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 1 July 1916. Disembarked at Suez 27 December 1916 and posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 20 March 1917. Admitted to 66th Casualty Clearing Station on 19 August 1917 with appendicitis, then to 24th Stationary Hospital with colitis on 23 August 1917. Transferred and admitted to various Stationary Hospitals 25 August 1917 to 28 September 1917. From 12 to 18 October 1917 was a patient of the Aotea Convalescent Home before returning to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Diagnosed with 'mental derangement' (acute mania) towards the end of the war. Returned as an invalid on SS Malta.

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