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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Tiraa

Last name

MAU

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

84509
4th Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Date of birth

20 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Date of death

23/10/1946

Place of death

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Death registration number

AITU19461193

Headstone/grave location

Vaipae, Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Naoari Mau (sister)

Additional information

Attested in Rarotonga 12 June 1918. 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. Embarked on SS Paloona for Rarotonga, and arrived in Rarotonga 15 December 1918.

We were told about this headstone by a descendant when we were at the Aitutaki, Cook Islands airport preparing to fly back to Rarotonga on November 13th 2019. The descendant sent the headstone photos to us after we had left Aitutaki. Grave location unknown.

Date of death:
23/10/1946 (as per Cook Islands death register)
26/10/1946 (as per military headstone)

Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'T. NAU'.

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