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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:
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
Archives New Zealand online service record
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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