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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Taria

Last name

TEARII

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

84513
4th Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Tearii TARIA

Date of birth

18 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Date of death

19/09/1919

Place of death

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Death registration number

AITU19190101

Headstone/grave location

Headstone memorial at Aratea, Aitutaki, Cook Islands. The original grave location was cleared in 1967 to make way for road infrastructure.

Next of kin

Naomi (mother), Taria (father)

Additional information

Enlisted 10 July 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp. Discharged 20 March 1919.

His burial site was cleared in the 1960’s however our team located his memorial headstone in Aitutaki in November 2019.

Added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and New Zealand Rolls of Honour, announced by the NZDF October 2019:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/116716348/forgotten-wwi-war-dead-honoured-100-years-on
“On Friday, on the basis of research done by Cate Walker, Howard Weddell, Paula Paniani and Bobby Nicholas, the names of six Cook Islands soldiers were added to the New Zealand and Commonwealth War Graves Commission's official rolls of honour.”

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/75463732/taria-tearii/

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