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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
Opura
Last name
TEPEI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60710
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
24 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
27/11/1962
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19620056
Headstone/grave location
Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tungata Tepei (wife), Rarotonga, Tepei (father)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918, embarked on the SS Manuka at Wellington 13 June 1918 and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and were discharged 20 March 1919
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