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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
No first name on enlistment
Last name
PIAPO
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19348
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Piapo TAPUTU
Date of birth
1886
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
24/09/1923
Place of death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death registration number
ATIU19230179
Headstone/grave location
Areora, Atiu, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Taputu (father), Atiu, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Embarked at Wellington 16 January 1916 and disembarked Suez from SS Malwa. Had a significant number of admissions to medical facilities, and embarked 21 May 1917 to return to New Zealand. Admitted to the Waikato Sanatorium in Cambridge for treatment. Discharged 20 September 1917 and returned to the Cook Islands. Died 24 September 1923 in Atiu of tuberculosis.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records name as 'P. Taputu'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as 'PIAPO TAPUTU'.
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