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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:
L/Cpl
First name/s (as per enlistment record)
Putua
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
KAINUKU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60800
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
07/08/1896
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
09/07/1964
Place of death
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Uranie Cemetery, Tipaerui, Papeete, Taihiti, French Polynesia
Next of kin
Teatuanui Kainuku Vaine (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Employed by Miller and Paterson and living in Auckland at time of enlistment. Enlisted in Auckland 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked on SS Malta for New Zealand 14 December 1918. Discharged 7 March 1919 in Auckland.
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