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Cenotaph record

Rere Totoroaere

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Rere AWMM
  • Surname
    Totoroaere AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Rere A Mati AWMM
    • Rere AWMM
    • Teokotai AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1217 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Congregational, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1890 Cook Islands WW1 Project Mangaia, Cook Islands Cook Islands WW1 Project
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • WW1 Mrs Vaine Maki (wife), Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM
    • WW1 Vaine Maki Totoroaere, Vaine (wife), Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1217 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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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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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Listed on the Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board, RSA Rarotonga, as 'Corp Totoroaere R'. Source: WW1 NZEF ANZAC Soldiers Research Project.

    SuppNom: Ex 3rd Maori Contingent, as “Rere".

    Next of Kin/Family member/s: Maki (Wife) Rarotonga, Naku (Mother), Totoroaere (Father)

    Notes: Re-enlisted & embarked 13/6/18 3rd Rarotongan Coy as 'Teokotai.

    Not listed on the Atiu cenotaph April 2019 AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    7 September 1929 AWMM
    Atiu, Cook Islands AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Atiu, 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

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Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R22012964
    Further Reference
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      p.3 AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      85: 18 AWMM
    • Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group. AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • This record was partially compiled from information kindly provided by Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Walker, Cook Islands WW1 NZEF ANZAC Soldiers Research Project AWMM

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