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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Toru

Last name

TAKU

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

84577
4th Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Date of birth

25 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Date of death

26/10/1971

Place of death

Auckland, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1971/47980

Headstone/grave location

Mangere Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand

Next of kin

Maki (mother), Taku (father), Mauakaina (wife), Nga & Tino (children)

Additional information

Attested in Rarotonga 12 June 1918. Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 10 July 1918. Discharged 7 December 1918 due to the signing of the Armistice that ended WWI.

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