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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
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)
Archives New Zealand online service record
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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