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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
Taimau
Last name
NAKA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19278
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Naka TAIMAU
Nakatauraa TAIMAU
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
26/05/1955
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19550026
Headstone/grave location
Cemetery next to the Latter-day Saints Church, Avarua/Avatiu, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Akatuiti (mother), Taimau (father), Uti (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1st July 1916. Embarked from New Zealand 11 November 1916, arrived in Egypt 27 December 1916 and posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Training Regiment and Base Depot at Moscar. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 31 July 1917. Admitted ill to the 71st Casualty Clearing Station 21 July 1918 and transferred to 24th Stationary Hospital 23 July 1918 to 14 September 1918. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 of March 1919.
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