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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:
Lance Corporal
First name/s
Kopu
Last name
PAKARI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19247
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
01/01/1894 (as per headstone inscription)
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
17/07/1975
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19750046
Headstone/grave location
Arai Te Tonga Rd, Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Moe (mother), Pakari Tauu (father), Upokoina Mataorakore (wife)
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga. Disembarked from SS Malwa at Suez on 27 December 1916. Joined the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Detached to 97th Heavy Battery Royal Artillery from 11 October 1917 to 9 November 1917. Returned to New Zealand from Egypt on SS Wiltshire departing 26 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
No online war service record
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