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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Tere

Last name

TUAINE

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

20841
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, Rarotongan Company

Also known as

Tere-ora-metua Otua’u Te Pore

Date of birth

1893

Place of birth

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Date of death

11/09/1963

Place of death

Whakatane, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1963/27939

Headstone/grave location

Raetihi Urupa, Whanganui, New Zealand

Next of kin

Metua (mother), Tautu, Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 24 July 1916 in New Zealand as he was previously employed with the Union Steamship Co. Ltd. Embarked from New Zealand for Egypt 16 November 1916. At port and coaling stops in Australia he missed the boat at Melbourne and was sent to Adelaide to rejoin the ship. Disembarked from SS Malwa in Suez 27 December 1916 and posted to NZ Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 5 March 1918. Returned on SS Malta and discharged in New Zealand 7 March 1919.

Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image credits and references

Restored portrait image supplied by descendant Christine Hirawani

Further links

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