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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:
Driver (WWI)
Sergeant (WWII)
First name/s
Thomas Charles
Last name
WORRALL
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
6/2968 (WWI)
1st Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment
801193 (WWII)
Headquarters Company
Also known as
Date of birth
04/12/1892
Place of birth
Middlesex, London, England
Date of death
24/9/1948
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1948/19940
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Mrs Mary Jane Worrall (mother), Lee House, Shibden, Halifax, England
and 22 Alderley Rd, Wilmslow Cheshire, England
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Employed as a salesman with Cook Islands Trading Company on WWI enlistment. Left Rarotonga September 1914 by ship and enlisted at Trentham Military Camp near Wellington 21 June 1915.
Wounded in action in the field 16 September 1916 (gunshot wound to left leg and compound fracture). Returned to New Zealand on the hospital ship SS Marama 13 January 1917 and discharged 21 August 1917 as no longer physically fit for war service on account of wounds received in action. Re-enlisted during WWII.
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