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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:
Lance Corporal
First name/s
Punoua
Last name
RAKI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19293
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
22/09/1895 (as per headstone inscription)
Place of birth
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date of death
06/03/1971
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1971/26540
Headstone/grave location
Mangere Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of kin
Mary Solomona (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916, disembarked Egypt 27 December 1916 and posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917 and to the Heavy Battery Royal Artillery from 5 October 1917 to 9 November 1917. Embarked New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918. After disembarkation from SS Malta he was sick and remained in New Zealand for treatment at Trentham Camp and then to Featherston Camp Hospital when the main body returned to the Cook Islands. Discharged and returned to Rarotonga on the SS Moana on 7 April 1918.
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