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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
Oiaua
Last name
KOROITI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60643
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
29/04/1899
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
04/11/1958
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19580032
Headstone/grave location
Avatiu/Ruatonga, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Teinaiti (father), Mangaia, Ua (mother), Mangaia
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
04/11/1958 (as per Cook Islands death register)
05/11/1958 (as per military headstone)
Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)
Image credits and references
Left to right in this photo are the three KOROITI brothers, Pte Oiaua KOROITI 60643, Pte Akaitia KOROITI 60748, Pte Teremaki (TeAkataa) KOROITI 5th Rarotongan Contingent. All three brothers were born on the island of Mangaia. Their sister Rima was the wife of soldier Patu URITAUA 16/1215
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