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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)
Ngatokorua
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
TAKAI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19279
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Takai NGATOKORUA
Date of birth
February 1893 (as per headstone inscription)
Place of birth
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date of death
28/03/1978
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19780033
Headstone/grave location
Matavera (next to the old packing shed), Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Ngatokorua (father), Mavai Takai (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga, but was assessed as medically unfit at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp in Auckland New Zealand and was discharged.
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