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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Kairenga
Last name
AUPINI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19231
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Aupini KAIRENGA
Tama HAUPINI
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Manihiki, Cook Islands
Date of death
12/07/1947
Place of death
Rakahanga, Cook Islands/Manihiki, Cook Islands
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Memorial headstone location: Rakahanga
Next of kin
Kairenga Tama (father), Rakahanga, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Arrived in Egypt 27 December 1918 and attached to the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand 14 December 1918 on the SS Malta and discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board records his name as “A. Kairenga”
Date of death: 12/07/1947. Died at sea with wife and three adopted children while sailing from Rakahanga, Cook Islands to Manihiki, Cook Islands. All occupants considered drowned and bodies never recovered.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga lists his name as “A Kairenga”
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Document courtesy of National Archives Cook Islands
Further links
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