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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

No first name on enlistment

Last name

AKI

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19232
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Aki ETEKE
Aki TEAVA
Eteke Teava AKI

Date of birth

1887

Place of birth

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Date of death

15/04/1964

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19640039

Headstone/grave location

On the Matavera/Ngatangiia border lagoon side next to a stream, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Ngatokorua (mother), Eteke (father), Atuie Ngatokorua (wife)

Additional information

Enlisted 1 July 1916 and disembarked from the SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916. Admitted to the 26th Stationary Hospital between 19 January 1917 and 3 February 1917. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Admitted to the 66th Casualty Clearing Station with fever 20 August 1917, and then to the 24th Stationary Hospital 23 August 1917 and to the 27th General Hospital, Abbassia 25 August 1917. Transferred to the Aotea Convalescent Home between 1 September 1917 and the 12 September 1917. Pte Aki rejoined the Rarotongan Company 14 September 1917 but was admitted to the 45th Stationary Hospital with sciatica 13 October 1917. Transferred to the 24th Stationary Hospital, Abbassia 22 October 1917 before transferring to Aotea Convalescent Home between 3 November 1917 and 1 December 1917. Admitted to the 71st General Hospital at Helwan on 1 December 1917 to 24 January 1918 before being posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Declared unfit for further military service 5 April 1918 with chronic rheumatism and embarked on the SS Port Darwin for New Zealand 11 July 1918. Discharged 2 October 1918.

Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image credits and references

Portrait image credit: 31-A13315 (Herman Schmidt), ‘Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections’.
Colourised image credit: Cook Islands WW1 Soldiers Research Project

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