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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:
Private
First name/s
Kirikava
Last name
ATAI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84546
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Atai KIRIKAVA
Date of birth
21 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date of death
28/05/1959
Place of death
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Death registration number
AITU19590013
Headstone/grave location
Amuri, Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tuamaki K Atai (wife), Atai (father), Elizabeth (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 10 July 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand and discharged 7 December 1918.
Date of death:
28/05/1959 (as per Cook Islands death register)
29/05/1959 (as per miltary headstone)
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