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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 (as per enlistment record)
Ngatitautu
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
TAI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60717
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Ngati Tautu TAI
Date of birth
26 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
14/04/1962
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19620036
Headstone/grave location
Ruatonga, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Pukaia (wife), Tai (father), Te Paeru (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
14/04/1962 (as per Cook Islands death register)
15/04/1962 (as per military headstone)
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