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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Ngatama
Last name
PUATI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19288
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Puati NGATAMA
Date of birth
16/08/1895
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
11/11/1959
Place of death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MANG19590016
Headstone/grave location
Near the power station, Oneroa Rd, Oneroa, Mangaia
Next of kin
Roimate (mother), Ngatama (father), Angareu Ina (2nd wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested at Rarotonga 29 September 1915. Enlisted 1 July 1916. Disembarked from SS Malwa 27 December 1916 Suez and posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Admitted to the 26th Casualty Clearing Station 29 June 1917 and 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital, Kantara on 3 July 1917 and 24th Stationary Hospital, Abbassia on 4 July 1917 for the effects of heat. Admitted to 24th Stationary Hospital 26 August 1918 to 9 September 1918 with malaria. Returned as an invalid on SS Malta and discharged 20 March 1919.
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