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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
Manu
Last name
KORIA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19248
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
06/01/1951
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19510117
Headstone/grave location
Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Miss Manu (sister), Tamuera (father), Katara (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga, disembarked from SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916 and posted to New Zealand Training Units and Depots at Moascar. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Injured his left knee in an accident 18 April 1918. Diagnosed at 27th General Hospital Abbassia with parasitic disease and medically downgraded. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Wiltshire on 29 August 1918. Discharged 1 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour records his name as 'K. MANU'.
Date of death:
06/01/1951 (as per Cook Islands death register)
07/01/1951 (as per military headstone)
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