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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)

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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