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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

No first name on enlistment

Last name

MATAPUTA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1213
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion
1st Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Mataputa A NOO

Date of birth

22 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Atiu, Cook Islands

Date of death

05/03/1916

Place of death

Auckland, New Zealand

Death registration number

Unknown

Headstone/grave location

Devonport (O’Neill’s Point) Cemetery, Bayswater, Auckland, New Zealand

Next of kin

Noo (parent), Rarotonga

Archives New Zealand online service record

Additional information

Died from phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis) while undergoing training with Māori Contingent Reinforcements in New Zealand.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission listing: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/642928/mataputa/

No online war service record.
Not listed on the Atiu cenotaph April 2019.

Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image credits and references

Commemorative certificate courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/642928/mataputa/

Further links

N/A

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