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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
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)
Archives New Zealand online service record
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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