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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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Highest Rank:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Tuira
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
TARAI
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
19314
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Teuira TARAI
Date of Birth
1889
Place of Birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of Death
18/02/1940
Place of Death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
MANG19490031
Headstone/Grave Location
Headstone located at Cook Islands Christian Church, Ivirua Rd, Ivirua, Mangaia, Cook Islands. Burial location unknown
Next of Kin
Tarai (father), Mangaia, Cook Islands
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Disembarked at Suez ex Malwa 27 December 1916. Posted to Rarotongan Company on 8 September 1917 and detached to 97th Heavy Battery Royal Artillery on 11 October 1917. Admitted to various hospitals from 24 November 1917 for the next few months. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918. In quarantine at Somes Island, Wellington, New Zealand January/February 1919. Embarked on SS Paloona for Rarotonga and was discharged 20 March 1919.
Another document dated 29 May 1950, records date of death as 24/02/1949
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