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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)
Ngaingatara
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
TOTOAERE
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
84570
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Totoroaere NGAINGATARA
Date of Birth
26 years of age on enlistment
Place of Birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of Death
18/07/1935 (as per military headstone)
Place of Death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
Unknown
Headstone/Grave Location
Matavera, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of Kin
Totoaere (father), Raeka (mother)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Atested in Rarotonga 10 June 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp 12 July 1918. Discharged 7 December 1918 due to the signing of the Armistice that ended WWI. Headstone states that he died in Rarotonga on 18 July 1935 which could be an incorrect date as other documents record another date.
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