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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:
Corporal
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Kaitara
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
TOTO
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19256
2nd & 3rd Rarotongan Contingents
Also Known As
Kaitara TOTOU
Date of Birth
1895
Place of Birth
Manihiki, Cook Islands
Date of Death
07/03/1970
Place of Death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
RARO19510121
Headstone/Grave Location
Panama Catholic Cemetery, Panama, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of Kin
Toto (father), Hakirere Enoka (mother), Laita (wife)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted into the 2nd Rarotongan Contingent 1 July 1916 at Rarotonga and discharged for medical reasons after 94 days of service. Re-enlisted 2 March 1918 into the 3rd Rarotongan Contingent. Disembarked ex. SS Port Lyttleton at Suez 4 August 1918. Was in a detachment of the Rarotongan Company in Beirut at the end of the war in November 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
07/03/1970 (as per Cook Islands death register)
06/03/1970 (as per military headstone)
Rank of 'Private' on headstone.
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