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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:
Private
First name/s
Tava
Last name
NIOVARA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60712
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Jean Marie Teve (Dave) NIOVARA
T. (Dave) NIOVARA
Date of birth
About 20 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mauke, Cook Islands
Date of death
03/01/1971
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1971/34100
Headstone/grave location
Mangere Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of kin
Niovara (father), Mauke, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested in Rarotonga 11 February 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp 12 March 1918. Embarked 13 June 1918 for Egypt, and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'D. Niovara'.
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