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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:
Private
First name/s
Uaongo
Last name
AVIRIA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60667
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
January 1897
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
20/09/1980
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19800048
Headstone/grave location
RSA, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Aviria (father), Mangaia, Mau (mother), Mangaia
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918, embarked 13 June 1918 and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to the 76th Casualty Clearing Station on 1 October 1918 with measles. Transferred to 48th Stationary Hospital in Gaza, the 49th Stationary Hospital on 17 October 1918 and to the 24th Stationary Hospital at Chanbra, Cairo 20 October 1918. Discharged to Aotea Convalescent Home 8 November 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and was discharged from the NZEF 20 March 1919.
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