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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
Tautu Aneru
Last name
TUKARA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60784
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tukara ANERU
Date of birth
25/09/1894
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
29/07/1961
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19610038
Headstone/grave location
Cook Islands Christian Church, Matavera, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Andrew Tukara (father), Matavera, Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 and embarked for Egypt 13 June 1918. Disembarked at Suez and was posted to the Rarotongan Company 4 August 1918. Sick on board SS Malta on return to New Zealand and off-loaded for treatment and quarantine at Fremantle, Western Australia 12 January 1919 with serious influenza and pneumonia. Departed Sydney April 1919 for New Zealand and discharged 9 July 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'T. Aneru'.
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