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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
Takaia
Last name
PUATI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60664
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
23 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
07/05/1968
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19680037
Headstone/grave location
Tikioki, Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tu John (mother), Puati John (father).
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested 4 February 1918 at Rarotonga and enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Disembarked at Suez ex SS Port Lyttleton 14 August 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to hospital 4 November 1918 and evacuated to 48th Stationary Hospital, Gaza 10 November 1918 and discharged from hospital 15 November 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Buried in an unmarked grave in the same family cemetery as his brother Pte Piri PUATI 60723. Exact grave location unknown.
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