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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Teapaina

Last name

TAOTE

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19331
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Taote TEAPAINA

Date of birth

1894

Place of birth

Atiu, Cook Islands

Date of death

14/10/1946

Place of death

Atiu, Cook Islands

Death registration number

ATIU19460009

Headstone/grave location

Unknown

Next of kin

Ravea (mother), Atiu, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 1 July 1916, disembarked SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916 and posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot until 31 July 1917 when posted to the Rarotongan Company. Admitted to various hospitals from 8 February 1918 to 21 March 1918 and discharged for duty. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 2 April 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and was discharged 20 March 1919.

Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'T Teapaina'.

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