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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
Nooiti
Last name
TAIANU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60763
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Taianu NOOITI
Date of birth
26 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
05/06/1938
Place of death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MANG19380012
Headstone/grave location
Cook Islands Christian Church, Tamarua, Mangaia, Cook Islands.
Headstone memorial only. Burial location unknown.
Next of kin
Nekeneke Taianu (wife), Tutakimoa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Father from Society Islands (French Polynesia), mother from Mangaia, Cook Islands.
Two children on enlistment.
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918 and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Transferred to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
The Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'T. Nooiti'.
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