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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
Tearii
Last name
TORU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60645
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
19 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
23/01/1955
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Cemetery next to the Latter-day Saints Church, Avarua/Avatiu, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Toru (father), Avatiu, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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