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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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Highest Rank:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Kapi
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
PUTOKO
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
60759
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Date of Birth
29 years of age on enlistment
Place of Birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of Death
20/07/1943
Place of Death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
RARO19430232
Headstone/Grave Location
Arorangi, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of Kin
Vainetaae Putoko (wife), Putoko (father), Raera (mother)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918 and embarked from Wellington 13 June 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Reported sick 24 October 1918 and transferred from Haifa on Hospital Ship Assaye 7 November 1918. Disembarked at Alexandria and admitted to hospital at Abbassia. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 for New Zealand and discharged 20 March 1919.
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