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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Bob

Last name

NGATAMA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60772
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Papu NGATAMA 

Date of birth

20 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Mauke, Cook Islands

Date of death

23/11/1927

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19270937

Headstone/grave location

Headstone memorial: Muri, Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Akae (mother) Atiu, Ngatama (father) Mauke, Cook Islands, Tangi (wife)

Additional information

Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp 12 March 1918. Embarked at Wellington 13 June 1918 to disembark at Suez 4 August 1918 to join the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot at Moascar. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Developed Influenza and was transferred to the 110th Field Ambulance 17 October 1918 and the 24th Stationary Hospital at Kantara and then the 27th Stationary Hospital, Abbassia 20 October 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

Date of death:
23/11/1927 (as per Cook Islands death register)
24/11/1927 (as per military headstone)

Our team have received information which leads us to believe that this headstone and the neighbouring headstone of Pte Tua Tafifiura were moved from the graves, and the graves were subsequently cleared during the construction of the Muri Beach Club Hotel.

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