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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
Last name
STOWERS
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1416
4th Reinforcements, New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion
Rarotongan Company
Also known as
Date of birth
19/03/1884 (as per war service record)
Place of birth
Samoa
Date of death
Unknown
Place of death
Unknown
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Mrs Mary Stowers (mother), Apia, Samoa
Mr James Stowers (father), Apia, Samoa
Abigail Stowers (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Travelled from Samoa to New Zealand to enlist 15 February 1916 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Embarked at Wellington 6 May 1916 and arrived in Egypt 23 June 1916. Disembarked Southampton, United Kingdom 7 August 1916 and posted to the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 27 September 1916. Transferred to the Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918 and arrived in Egypt 5 February 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 5 March 1918 and returned to New Zealand on SS Malta. Discharged 10 March 1919.
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