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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
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)
Archives New Zealand online service record
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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