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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Tearii Vaatau
Last name
PAITAI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60649
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tearii Vaatau MAVE
Date of birth
20 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
26/06/1967
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1967/43535
Headstone/grave location
Mangere Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of kin
Moumou (mother), Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested in Rarotonga 4 February 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Embarked 13 June 1918 for Egypt, and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Service records state that he was born in Rarotonga, however, he may have been born in Huahine, Tahiti to Cook Islands parents. Family to confirm.
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