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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Nimerota

Last name

KOPUKOAO

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60778
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

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Date of birth

19/20 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Mauke, Cook Islands

Date of death

17/02/1948

Place of death

Mauke, Cook Islands

Death registration number

MAUK19480014

Headstone/grave location

Pirikura, Kimiangatau, Mauke, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Kopukoao (father), Ngapito / Vainerere (mother), Mou (wife)

Additional information

Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Camp. Embarked on SS Manukau at Wellington 13 June 1918. Disembarked at Suez ex SS Port Lyttleton 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. From 14 October 1918 to 7 November 1918 was admitted sick to the Casualty Clearing Station and then to the 24th Stationary Hospital, Gaza. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 9 July 1919.

Our team documented this grave and repainted the lettering to the grey granite military headstone with members of the Mauke community during our “Mauke Soldier Search Mission” in November 2022. You can view that series here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVPyjBZLTn7bKKrrAGFWrzeM9eNP0-tW

His brother, Private Tuainerenga KOPUKOAO 60721 died in Rarotonga and is buried in the Nikao Cemetery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

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