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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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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Teariki
Last name
PURI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60757
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
20 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
02/06/1973
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19730036
Headstone/grave location
Kaena Cemetery, Aroa, Arorangi, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Teariki Puri (father), Ataataivi (mother), Marie Cadousteau (wife)
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. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 15 November 1918. Sailed from Beirut to Alexandria 17-19 November 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Unmarked grave (April 2024)
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