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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
Teava
Last name
TANGATA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19332
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tangata TEAVA
Te Ava TANGATA
Date of birth
1893
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
06/04/1929
Place of death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Tengatangi, Atiu, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Teava (father), Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916, and posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Evacuated from Haifa on the Hospital Ship Assaye to Egypt on the 7 November 1918. Died in Atiu 6 April 1929 of tuberculosis.
His official military headstone records his date of death incorrectly as '6 - 4 - 92' when it should say '6 - 4 - 29'.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'T. Teava'.
His name is not recorded on the Atiu cenotaph April 2019.
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