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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

No first name on enlistment

Last name

PATU

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1215
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Patu TITA
Tita PATU
Patu URITAUA

Date of birth

14/08/1895

Place of birth

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Date of death

18/02/1967

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19670011

Headstone/grave location

Previously located at Makiroa Mitchell Family Plot, Hillside, Avatiu Valley, Rarotonga Cook Islands.
In November 2023, we were advised by family members that this grave and three others were exhumed and reburied at the family house at Avatiu, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

Next of kin

Moetaua (brother), Avarua, Rarotonga

Additional information

Enlisted in Rarotonga 27 September 1915. Disembarked at Suez from SS Navua 15 March 1916 and embarked for France 9 April 1916. Wounded in Action 18 October 1917 with a gun shot wound to his left arm. Rejoined the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 21 October 1917. Transferred to the Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918 and disembarked at Alexandria 4 February 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

Date of death:
18/02/1967 (as per Cook Islands death register)
28/02/1967 (as per military headstone)

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