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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
Robert Burns
Last name
BOYD
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
8244
British Army
Royal Scots Fusiliers
Also known as
Date of birth
24/01/1897
Place of birth
Darvel, East Ayrshire, Scotland
Date of death
20/06/1975 (as per Cook Islands death register)
19/06/1975 (as per headstone inscription)
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19750052
Headstone/grave location
Headstone location: RSA, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Mary Cameron Aird Torrance (1st wife) died 13/11/1939
Elsie Millar (2nd wife) died September 1977
John Boyd (father)
Margaret McKenzie (mother)
Additional information
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Portrait - no known copyright restrictions
Further links
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