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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)
URI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19340
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Uri TAOI
Date of birth
1887
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
31/03/1951
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Arorangi, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Taoivaini (mother), Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Disembarked at Suez 27 December 1916. Posted to the Rarotongan Company on the 7th of April 1917. Admitted to various hospitals with malaria 24 July 1918 to 14 August 1918. Admitted to a rest camp between 15 August 1918 to 6 September 1918 and then transferred to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade Training Regiment and Base Depot. Rejoined the Rarotongan Company 1 October 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and was discharged on 20 March 1919.
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