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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Kaveriri
Last name
OPITAIA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60756
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Kaveriri OPETAIA
Opetaia KAVERIRI
Date of birth
26 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
05/10/1948
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19480076
Headstone/grave location
Arorangi, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tauariki Opitaia, (wife), Opitaia (father)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. On arrival in Egypt was posted to the NZ Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Sick in hospital between 19 and 27 October 1918 and admitted to the 69th General Hospital at Deir El Belah between 6 and 20 November 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919.
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