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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:
Sergeant
First name/s
Raitia
Last name
TEPURETU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1200
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Araitia TEPURETU
Tepuretu ARAITIA Mataiapo
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
12/06/1984
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19840031A
Headstone/grave location
Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands (at the family home on the back road)
Next of kin
Metua R Tepureta (Tepuretu) (wife), Avarua, Rarotonga
(Matakeu on headstone)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Employed in Rarotonga as Assistant Postmaster. Enlisted in Rarotonga 25 September 1915. Disembarked in Suez 15 March 1916 to embark for France on 9 April 1916. Wounded in Action (WIA) with gun shot wound to leg, thigh and left shoulder 29 September 1916. Admitted to 1st South General Hospital, Birmingham, and then on 17 March 1917 to the New Zealand General Hospital, Hornchurch. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Arawa 10 January 1918. Treated in Wellington Hospital and discharged 13 April 1918.
Served as President of the Cook Islands RSA for many years.
Awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1967.
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