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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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Highest Rank:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Pi
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
NATI
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
19292
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Nati PI
Tangatapi NATI
Date of Birth
1892
Place of Birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of Death
15/10/1968
Place of Death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
ATIU19680007
Headstone/Grave Location
Mapumai Village, Atiu, Cook Islands (unmarked grave April 2019)
Next of Kin
Tua (mother), Nati Mataiapo (father), Tuaputa AKA Taringa Pukuka (wife)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga and disembarked SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916. Posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Marched out to Kantara 7 April 1917. Admitted to hospital "In the field" and at various hospitals from 18 to 27 August 1918. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to hospital from 13 to 24 October 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Family confirmed in 2023 that they are planning to have a military headstone manufactured in New Zealand to be shipped to Atiu.
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