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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Poaza
Last name
TEPAKI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84507
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Nooapii Mataiti MOKOTUPU
Tepaki Nooapii MOKOTUPU
Tepaki POAZA
Date of birth
22/09/1900 (as per service record)
22/09/1902 (as per headstone)
Place of birth
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date of death
14/09/1977
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand. Body transferred to Aitutaki, Cook Islands for interment in October 1977
Death registration number
NZBDM 1977/44159
Headstone/grave location
Cook Islands Christian Church, Arutanga, Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Poaza (father) and Tapere (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 12 June 1918 and discharged 7 December 1918.
In March 2020 we were contacted by a descendant who confirmed that Private Poaza TEPAKI was her ancestor. Family to confirm relationship to Private MOKOTUPU 5th Rarotongan Contingent and Private Mataio MOKOPUTU 84508.
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