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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)
Puti
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
VAKATINI
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
19294
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Date of Birth
1891
Place of Birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of Death
10/10/1927
Place of Death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
RARO1927932A
Headstone/Grave Location
Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands (in the cemetery next to Super Brown store)
Next of Kin
Maka (mother), Taaki (father), Matakeu (wife)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 and disembarked from SS Navua at Suez 27 December 1916. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917 and detached to the 10th Heavy Battery Royal Artillery between 5 May 1917 and 9 November 1918. Admitted to hospitals between 11 July 1918 and 11 August 1918 with malaria and rejoined the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to 33rd Casualty Clearing Station from 7 to 10 November 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919.
First grave image taken April 2019. The following three images were taken April 2025 following the grave rebuild.
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