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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Banaba

Last name

TIPE

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60653
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

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Date of birth

28 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Date of death

02/08/1920

Place of death

Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Death registration number

AITU19200135

Headstone/grave location

On a hill above Amuri, Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Mii Banaba Tipe, (wife), Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp New Zealand. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Admitted to a Field Ambulance 11th of October 1918 and from Haifa sailed by Hospital Ship Assaye to Alexandra. There he disembarked on 18 October 1918 and was admitted to 21st General Hospital until 9 November 1918 and discharged to duty 14 November 1918. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919. On discharge was unfit due to illness contracted on active service due to tuberculosis of the lung. Died 2 August 1920 in Aitutaki of tuberculosis.

Commonwealth War Grave announced October 2019:
https://i.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/116716348/forgotten-wwi-war-dead-honoured-100-years-on
“On Friday, on the basis of research done by Cate Walker, Howard Weddell, Paula Paniani and Bobby Nicholas, the names of six Cook Islands soldiers were added to the New Zealand and Commonwealth War Graves Commission's official rolls of honour.”

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/75463735/banaba-tipe/

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