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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
Ingatu
Last name
NGAIPU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84503
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
21 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
10/11/1918
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1918/8946
Headstone/grave location
Devonport (O’Neill’s Point) Cemetery, Bayswater, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of kin
Ponina (mother) Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Matai Ngaipu (father), Atiu
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested at Rarotonga 12 June 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 July 1918. Died of influenza 10 November 1918 after being ill for 11 days.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/642932/ingatu-ngaipu/
Not listed on Atiu cenotaph April 2019
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Commemorative certificate courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/642932/ingatu-ngaipu/
Further links
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