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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
UPOKOKEU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19341
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Poea UPOKOKEU
Upokokeu POEA
Date of birth
1896
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
29/03/1960
Place of death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death registration number
ATIU19600006
Headstone/grave location
Teenui, Atiu, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Ngaetu (wife), Atiu, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Disembarked from SS Malwa at Suez on 27 December 1916 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 30 November 1917. Injured his hand at Jaffa on 23 February 1918. Embarked on SS Malta for New Zealand and discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records name as 'U. POEA'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as 'UPOKOKEU'.
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