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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
Teariki
Last name
URIARAU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60670
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Amene URIARAU
Date of birth
09/01/1892
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
22/07/1931
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19310049
Headstone/grave location
Headstone location: Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tekura (mother), Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Embarked 13 June 1918 for Egypt, and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
At the headstone location at Avarua, the family said his grave was further to the right but had broken down. Another family member said he was buried in an unmarked grave in the Taputapuatea Burial Ground, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
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