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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:
Lance Corporal
First name/s
No first name on enlistment
Last name
KAIPATI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1333
New Zealand (Māori) Pioneer Battalion
1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Nanumea, Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu)
Date of death
Unknown
Place of death
Unknown
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Tamuna (mother), Ellice Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in New Zealand 18 November 1915 when visiting as the 'Manservant' of the Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony. Attached A Company Rarotongans. Disembarked from SS Navua 15 March 1916 and embarked for France 8 April 1916. Admitted to the Australian Hospital, Wimereux 15 July 1916 with pleurisy and rejoined the NZ Pioneer Battalion 28 July 1916. Admitted to the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station 3 November 1916 with bronchitis and in the first half of 1917 had a number of admittances to medical facilities before embarking on Hospital Ship St Andrew and being admitted to the Royal Victorian Hospital with a mental condition. Discharged 04/12/1917 after being diagnosed with mental instability and delusional insanity in France in May 1917. Embarked for New Zealand on New Zealand Hospital Ship Maheno on its 3rd charter returning to Auckland 16 September 1917. Discharged from the NZEF 4 December 1917. L/Cpl Kaipati was the only Gilbert and Ellice Islander to proceed overseas outside of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Contingent.
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