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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
Tuainekore
Last name
KAUVAREVAI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84582
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
34 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
12/11/1924
Place of death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MANG19240075
Headstone/grave location
Poeaiai Rd, behind Babe’s Hotel, Tavaenga Rd, Oneroa, Mangaia, Cook Islands.
Headstone on the grave has the wrong name and service number
Next of kin
Kauvarevai (father) and Taukupu (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 14 June 1918 and discharged 7 December 1918.
Name is missing on the Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at the RSA Nikao Rarotonga.
While the date of death on this headstone (12/11/1924) is correct, the headstone has the incorrect service number and name. This headstone belongs to Tutai Tuakanakore/Kanune 84534 who died in Rarotonga 24 December 1967. Our research leads us to believe that this soldier’s headstone has been incorrectly named and placed on the grave of Tuainekore KAUVAREVAI
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