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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
Taoro
Last name
TONGIA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60776
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
20 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
29/06/1968
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19680052
Headstone/grave location
Ruatonga, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tongia (father)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 and embarked 13th of June 1918 to Suez. 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.
Unmarked grave (April 2024)
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