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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
No first name on enlistment
Last name
TUAPUTA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84558
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tuaputa UAONGO
Date of birth
19 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
05/10/1953
Place of death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MANG19530018
Headstone/grave location
Opposite Vaivoronga (Water Pool) Oneroa Rd, Oneroa, Mangaia, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Uaongo (father), Tuua (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested in Rarotonga 12 June 1918. Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp 10 July 1918 under the surname 'Tuaputa'. Later his history sheet and medical board discharge was under the name of 'Uaongo'. Also known with surname of 'Ongoroaiti. Discharged 6 December 1918 due to the signing of the Armistice that ended WWI.
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