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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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Highest Rank:
Lance Corporal
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Te Karotai
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
TANGITORU
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
19339
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Tekarotai TANGITORU
Tangitoru TEKAROTAI
Date of Birth
05/05/1888
Place of Birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of Death
26/05/1963
Place of Death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
MANG19630004
Headstone/Grave Location
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Next of Kin
Tangitoru (father), Mangaia, Cook Islands
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted 1 July 1916. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. When working in an ammunition dump about 9 August 1918 he was carrying a 6-inch shell and slipped and fell injuring his knee. He was admitted to 44th Stationary Hospital. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta departing Suez 14 December 1918 and discharged 20th of March 1919.
Date of death:
26/05/1963 (as per Cook Islands death register)
29/05/1963 (as per military headstone)
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