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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Teariki

Last name

KOKAUA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60648
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Date of birth

28/08/1882

Place of birth

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Date of death

28/02/1946

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19460183

Headstone/grave location

Taputapuatea Burial Ground, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Kokaua (father), Rarotonga. Taitai (mother), Rarotonga

Additional information

Attested 14 February 1918 in Rarotonga and 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Embarked on SS Manuka at Wellington 13 June 1918 to disembark at Suez 4 August 1918. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked on SS Malta for New Zealand 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919. Identified as one of the leaders of the 1919 WWI returned soldiers disturbance and as a result £17 8s was withheld from his final gratuity pay.

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