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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Tuakanaiti

Last name

TUIKAA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60741 
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Tuikaa TUAKANAITI

Date of birth

21 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Date of death

27/12/1967

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

Unknown

Headstone/grave location

Unknown

Next of kin

Tuikaa (father), Mangaia, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 12 March 1918 and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotonga Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919. Passed away 27 December 1967 in Rarotonga.

The service number for Pte Tuakanaiti TUIKAA (60741) is incorrectly recorded on the military headstone of Pte Taomia URI 60658 These two soldiers are also listed on the Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at the RSA Nikao Rarotonga with the same service number (60741). The correct service number for Pte Taomia URI is 60658.

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