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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:
Corporal
First name/s
Apu
Last name
TEPURETU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1222
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
1893
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
30/09/1916
Place of death
Somme, France
Death registration number
NZ1918/59601
Headstone/grave location
Enlisted 30 September 1915 in Rarotonga. Disembarked Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked for France 9 April 1916 with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. Killed in action France 30 September 1916.
Initially buried at Gran Dump, ½ mile west of Longueval. Later reburied at Quarry Cemetery, Montauban, Somme, France
Memorial headstone located on the corner of Ara Tapu and Teperutu Road, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tepuretu (father), Avarua, Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/245604/apu-tepuretu/
"Son of Tepuretu and Miriama, of Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Island."
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Grave image (France) source: https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/apu-tepuretu
Further links
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