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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
Paku
Last name
TEARIKI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19311
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Teariki PAKU
Paku Teariki KAOKORE
Date of birth
1896
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
01/03/1954
Place of death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death registration number
ATIU19540029
Headstone/grave location
Ngatiarua, Atiu, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Ratapu (mother), Atiu, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916 and disembarked 1916 ex SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916. Employed with the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Embarked on SS Malta for New Zealand 14th December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Rarotonga records name as 'T PAKU'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as 'TEARIKI PAKU'.
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