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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Teariki
Last name
KAROTAUA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19350
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Teariki KAROTANA
Date of birth
1896
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
28/12/1954
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19540079
Headstone/grave location
Beside the Cook Islands Christian Church, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Terangi Tepuretu (wife), Tekiiono (father)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga and disembarked from SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916. Posted to Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917 and to the Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery from 5 October to 8 November 1917. Admitted to 33rd Casualty Clearing Station with Scarlet Fever on 2 August 1918 and then transferred to 48th Stationary Hospital, Gaza 3 August 1918 and to the 44th Stationary Hospital 10 September 1918 and to the Military Infection Hospital, Chanbra 11 September 1918. Admitted to the New Zealand Aotea Convalescent Home from 14 September to 21 September 1918. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 for New Zealand and was discharged 20 March 1919.
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