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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

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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