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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
Akiu
Last name
KOPAKI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19257
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Kopaki AKIU
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
Unknown
Place of death
Unknown
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
We have received unconfirmed information from a descendant that he died in Papeete, Tahiti on 08/03/1951
Next of kin
Māori (mother), Tainui, Atiu, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested in Rarotonga on 1 June 1916 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp on 9 July 1916. Embarked on SS Manuka at Wellington 16 November 1916 and disembarked in Egypt 27 December 1916 and employed at the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment & Base Depot. On 12 June 1918 he was admitted to the 129th Field Ambulance on with malaria and then transferred to 36th Stationary Hospital Gaza. He was then transferred to 27th General Hospital Abbassia on 27 June 1918 and to the Aotea Convalescent Home Heliopolis on 3 July 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 16 July 1918 and embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board records name as “Corporal K. AKIU”
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as “Corporal KOPAKI”
Final rank of Private (previously Sergeant). In December 1918, reverted to Private at own request.
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