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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 (as per enlistment record)
Teariki
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
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
Archives New Zealand online service record
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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