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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
Kainana
Last name
MA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19265
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Ma KAINANA
Date of birth
1886
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
18/02/1957
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19570101
Headstone/grave location
Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Across the road from the Hartel Shop in Tupapa near the fishing club.
Next of kin
Te Kura (mother), Kainana (father), Mere Te Puretu (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Disembarked from the SS Malwa 27 December 1916. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Detached to the 97th Heavy Battery Royal Artillery between 11 October 1917 and 9 November 1917. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
18/02/1957 (as per Cook Islands death register)
19/02/1957 (as per military headstone)
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records rank as “Cpl”. Entry in service record on 31/07/1917 reads “All previous entries … are cancelled and the correct rank is Pte.”
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