Enlisted 12 March 1918. Disembarked in Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to hospital with Malaria 18 November 1918. After disembarkation from SS Malta was sick and remained in New Zealand for treatment at Trentham Military Camp. Embarked for Rarotonga on SS Moana 1 April 1919. Discharged 6 May 1919

In July 2019, Mr Ruddi Revake, a relative of Pte Tika Tavero (his maternal grandfather’s brother) shared information with us that Pte Tika Tavero is buried in a family burial site at Auraka Makatea, on the top of the hospital road in Oneroa Mangaia but he does not know the exact grave. His birth name was Tika Tetonga but was adopted by Tavero. He was told this by his mother Teio Puia who is the daughter of Revake who is Tika’s brother. Tika has a son in Tokoroa New Zealand (2023). His name is Ponarae Tetonga Tika. When we met with Ruddi at the burial ground in April 2023, he told us that Tika was a policeman after the war and died in 1952. We have since located a death record showing that his date of death was 13/06/1951. He married twice. He married his first wife Maata in 1916 in Avarua Rarotonga and she died in 23/05/1944. They had three children. In 1945 he married Angareu Arapoiti (the sister of Cook Islands WWI soldier Ataataivi Araipoti 16/1206) who had two previous husbands; Topa Enoka (married 1925), Tangitungane Tiraapu (married 1934).