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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Teauiti

Last name

KAVEA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

84572
4th Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Kavea TEAUITI

Date of birth

26 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Date of death

05/09/1957

Place of death

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Death registration number

MANG19570013

Headstone/grave location

Ara’oa Beach. On the left side of Oneroa Road past the airport driving to Oneroa, Mangaia, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Mareka Teauiti (wife), Teauiti (father), Toa (mother)

Additional information

Enlisted in Rarotonga 12th of June 1918 and was discharged 7th of December 1918.

Initially enlisted under given name and reverted back to surname when in camp. NZEF records his name as Teauiti, Te Auiti, or Kaiwaievai.

Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at the RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as “T. Kaiwaievai”.

Date of death:
05/09/1957 (as per Cook Islands death register)
06/09/1957 (as per military headstone)

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