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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
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)
Archives New Zealand online service record
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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