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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Taomia

Last name

TOTOROAERE

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60679
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Date of birth

27 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Date of death

27/11/1956

Place of death

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Death registration number

MANG19560012

Headstone/grave location

Cook Islands Christian Church, Oneroa, Mangaia, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Totoroaere (father), Mangaia, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 12 March 1918, embarked on the SS Manuka at Wellington 13 June 1918 and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

Military headstone located in the Oneroa CICC grounds. Pte Totoroaere was buried at the site of the Mangaia College playground. After the land was declared to be used as a school, the headstone was relocated to the Oneroa CICC grounds where a memorial was built. This information was sent by a descendant to the Nikao Cemetery Restoration Project Facebook page.

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