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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
Raivaru
Last name
TEARII
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84565
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Raivara TeArii
Raivara TERII
Date of birth
21 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
29/04/1953
Place of death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MANG19530004
Headstone/grave location
On the left side of the road driving from the airport to Oneroa near Atuakoro Landing, Oneroa Road, Mangaia, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Taumarie TeArii (wife), Tearii (father), Teura (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 10 July 1918. Discharged 7 December 1918 due to the signing of the Armistice that ended WWI.
Date of death:
29/04/1953 (as per Cook Islands death register)
03/05/1953 (as per military headstone, Roll Call and war service documents)
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