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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
TAUARUA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1223
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tauarua TEPURETU
Taua TEPURETU
Rua Taua TEPURETU
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
15/02/1958
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19580071
Headstone/grave location
Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Rangi Tepuretu, Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 30 September 1916. Disembarked Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked for France 9 April 1916 and served with New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. Detached to the Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918. Embarked for Egypt from Marseilles 21 January 1914 and posted to the Rarotongan Company in Palestine 15 February 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
15/02/1958 (as per Cook Islands death register)
17/02/1958 (as per military headstone)
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