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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
Eric Lewis
Last name
GRANT
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19458
12th Māori Reinforcements, New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
Rarotongan Company
Also known as
Date of birth
19/08/1896
Place of birth
Suva, Fiji
Date of death
3/10/1965
Place of death
Suva, Fiji
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Peter Grant (father), Suva, Fiji
Louisa Rae Grant (wife), Suva, Fiji
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 18 September 1916, arrived at Sling Camp 28 March 1917 and posted to the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion in France 14 September 1917. Then transferred to the Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918, embarked for Egypt 21 January 1918. Served with the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment & Base Depot and with the Rarotongan Company from 17 May 1918. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta and discharged 7 March 1919.
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