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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
Teariki Takina
Last name
TEARIAROA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60707
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
26 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mauke, Cook Islands
Date of death
02/11/1943
Place of death
Mauke, Cook Islands
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Makatea, Oiretumu, Mauke, Cook Islands. Gravesite cleared.
Next of kin
Teariaroa (father), Mauke, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Posted to the Rarotongan Company in the field 15 November 1918. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
November 2022, Teararoa Mani took us to a location at Makatea where he believes the home and burial site was.
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Document source: National Archives Cook Islands
Further links
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