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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
Akatauina
Last name
TU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19322
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tu AKATAUINA
Tu AKETAUINA
Tu TEKEITANA
Tu TUKEITANA
Ukaitaua AKETAUINA
Date of birth
1895
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
26/03/1924
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Behind the Cook Islands Christian Church, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Akatauina (father), Atiu, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 and was posted to the Rarotongan Company 4 January 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919 after serving with the NZEF for a total of two years and 255 days.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board records his name as 'T. Aketauina'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as 'Akatauina Tu'.
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