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Final rank:

Lance Corporal

First name/s

Taraia

Last name

TIRIA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19335
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Tiria TARAIA

Date of birth

29/02/1888

Place of birth

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Date of death

12/09/1966

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19660069

Headstone/grave location

Grave location: Cook Islands Christian Church Cemetery, Titikaveka, Rarotonga (as per Cook Islands death register).

The undelivered headstone is located at the RSA, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

Next of kin

Mrs Tiria (mother), Mangaia, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Disembarked at Suez from SS Malwa 27 December 1916 and posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Bde and Training Regiment and Base Depot. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 July 1917. Discharged 20 January 1919.

Date of death:
12/09/1966 (as per Cook Islands death register)
13/09/1966 (as per military headstone)

Grave location confirmed by the mother of Mrs Annie Caffery Petaia April 2019.

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