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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 (as per enlistment record)
Only one name recorded on enlistment
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
TIPOKI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1221
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Vaevaeonga TIPOKI
Tipoki VAEVAEONGA
Date of birth
1891
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
21/12/1949
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19490098
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Vaevaeonga (father), Oneroa, Mangaia, Vaa (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Rarotonga 28 September 1915 and disembarked in Egypt 15 March 1916 to embark for France as part of the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion 9 April 1916. Transferred to the Rarotongan Company 14 January 1918 and embarked for Egypt 21 April 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 15 February 1918. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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