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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
Tangiia
Last name
TEAITU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60652
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
1881 (as per civilian headstone)
Place of birth
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date of death
14/05/1971
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO1971037A
Headstone/grave location
Behind the Cook Islands Christian Church, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tangimetua Teaitu (wife), Titikaveka, Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked on the SS Malta for New Zealand 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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