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Final rank:

Sergeant

First name/s

Tariu

Last name

KAKEPARE

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19254
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Kakepare TARIU
Gasper TARIU
Kasper TARIU
Kapita TARIU

Date of birth

1889

Place of birth

Atiu, Cook Islands

Date of death

04/07/1954

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

Unknown. Death entry recorded in the Catholic Church death records.

Headstone/grave location

Panama Catholic Cemetery, Rarotonga Cook Islands

Next of kin

Tariu (father), Areora, Atiu, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 1 July 1916. Disembarked from SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916. Posted to Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Returned sick on SS Malta and was discharged 20 March 1919.

April 2024 the grave was unmarked as the military headstone had been removed to facilitate the interment of another family member several years ago.

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