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Anguna Kainana

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Photograph of Anguna Kainana on the left, who served with the Pioneer Maori Battalion in the First World War. Image kindly provided by Willie Cuthers (July 2020).

Photograph of Anguna Kainana on the left, who served with the Pioneer Maori Battalion in the First W …

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Identity

  • Title
  • Forenames
    Anguna AWMM
  • Surname
    Kainana AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 60688 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    Circa 1892 AWMM RarotongaCook Islands AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Tiraa Kainana Vaine (wife), Aitutaki, Cook Islands AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 60688 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Date of Death: 19/05/1959 as per Cook Islands Death Register -20/05/1958 as per military headstone

    Next of kin/Family member/s: Kainana (Father), Tekura (Mother)

    Did not proceed overseas. Returned from New Zealand as medically unfit before proceeding on service. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    20 May 1958 AWMM
    Age 68 AWMM
    RarotongaCook Islands AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board, RSA Rarotonga AWMM

Roll of Honour

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Sources

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