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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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Highest Rank:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Aria
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
KAITEPERE
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
60755
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Kaitapere ARIA
Date of Birth
About 23 years of age on enlistment
Place of Birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of Death
21/11/1945
Place of Death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
MANG19450017
Headstone/Grave Location
Military headstone memorial in Tamarua CICC grounds. Tamarua Village, Mangaia, Cook Islands.
Burial location unknown.
Next of Kin
Tuamuna Kaitepere, Vaine (wife), Atiu, Cook Islands, Kai-tapere (father) and Mai-Kai (mother)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Attested in Rarotonga February 1918 and at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked from Port Lyttleton at Suez August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company September 1918. On 3 November 1918 was admitted to the 33rd Hospital in Haifa with dysentery and then evacuated on the hospital ship Assaye 7 November 1918 to Alexandria and admitted to 87th General Hospital. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta and discharged on 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Death Register records date of death as 21/01/1945 which our research leads us to believe is incorrect and should be 21/11/1945 as per military headstone.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'K. ARIA'.
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