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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
Tangata Tutai
Last name
MAKITIRA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60779
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
19 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mauke, Cook Islands
Date of death
30/04/1964
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19640075
Headstone/grave location
Broken headstone is situated beside a fence at the Panama Catholic Cemetery, Panama, Rarotonga (April 2024). Grave location unknown.
Next of kin
Makitira (father), Mauke, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested at Rarotonga 4 February 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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