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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Paiorua

Last name

KAPI

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19258
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Kapi PAIORUA

Date of birth

November 1882

Place of birth

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Date of death

19/11/1958

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19580035

Headstone/grave location

Ruatonga, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Maruia (wife), Rimaati (mother), Paiorua (father)

Additional information

Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916 and service commenced 9 July 1916. Disembarked from SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916 and posted to Rarotongan Company 14 September 1917. Numerous admissions to medical facilities whilst serving. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board records his name as ‘K. Paiorua’.

In April 2019 our team assisted descendant Julia Kapi to restore her great uncle’s military headstone.

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