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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Iona Teipo
Last name
TOROA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19329
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Toroa Iona TEIPO
Date of birth
1893
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
18/12/1938
Place of death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death registration number
ATIU19380036
Headstone/grave location
Headstone located at Areora Village, Atiu, Cook Islands.
Grave location unknown.
Next of kin
Taungata (grandfather), Atiu, Cook Islands, Tooroa (father)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Disembarked at Suez from SS Malwa 27 December 1916 and joined the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Admitted to 24th Stationary Hospital, Abbassia 31 August 1917 and was operated on for a hernia. At Belah in October 1917 while working with surf boats unloading stores he fell in the boat and damaged his back and continued to have recurring difficulties. In November 1918 he was medically downgraded as he was classified as unfit for further military service and returned as an invalid on SS Malta. Discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
18/12/1938 (as per Cook Islands death register)
26/04/1944 (as per military headstone)
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at the RSA Rarotonga records name as 'I. T. Teipo'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as 'TOROA IONA TEIPO'.
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