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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Porini

Last name

ARAPAI

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60647
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Polinahe ALAPAI

Date of birth

08/01/1894 or 1898 as per military record

Place of birth

Manihiki, Cook Islands

Date of death

24/05/1946

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19460211

Headstone/grave location

Nikao Cemetery, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

J W Alapai (father), Honolulu. Here (mother), Manihiki, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 12 March 1918 and embarked at Wellington for Suez on 13 June 1918. Posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot at Ismalia on 4 August 1918. Embarked on the SS Malta at Suez on 14 December 1918. Medically examined on 12 February 1919 in Wellington and was identified as a possible influenza carrier and remained in New Zealand for further treatment. Embarked on SS Moana 7 April 1919 and was discharged from the NZEF 4 June 1919.

Half a granite military headstone was located at the Nikao Cemetery in 2014. It was later identified as belonging to Pte Porini ARAPAI aka Polinahe ALAPAI 60647. Descendants ordered a new military headstone and a private plaque that were unveiled in September 2018.

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