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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
Noa
Last name
NENA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1192
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Teuru Nena NOA (as per headstone)
Date of birth
05/04/1893
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
15/09/1957
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1957/28257
Headstone/grave location
Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of kin
Noa (father), Arorangi, Rarotonga, Meretonga (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 28 September 1915. Disembarked from SS Navua at Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked for France as part of the NZ Pioneer Battalion from Port Said 9 April 1916. Admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance 16 October 1916 and then to the 8th Stationary Hospital on 23 October 1916 with bronchitis. Transferred from New Zealand Māori Pioneer Battalion 14 January 1918, embarked from France 21 January 1918, arrived Egypt 4 February 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 15 February 1918. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 for New Zealand and discharged 20 March 1919.
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