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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
Puatuitui
Last name
VAVIA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19346
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Vavia PUATUITUI
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
07/08/1944
Place of death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Teenui, Atiu, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Puatuitui (brother), Tehenui, Atiu, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga. Disembarked at Suez 27 December 1916 and spent service in the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot at Moascar. Discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records name as 'V Puatuitui'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as 'VAVIA PUATUITUI'.
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