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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:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Teapaina
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
TAOTE
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
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
Vaitamina, Atiu
Next of Kin
Ravea (mother), Atiu, Cook Islands
Link to Online Service Record
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'.
We located this headstone during our April 2025 trip to Atiu and took the opportunity to reletter the military headstone.
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