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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
Temata Vaipunu
Last name
ANAUPOU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60725
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tematavaipunu ANAUPOU
Date of birth
22 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mauke, Cook Islands
Date of death
17/02/1957
Place of death
Mauke, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MAUK19570014A
Headstone/grave location
Taparere, Ngatiarua, Mauke, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tearii Vaine Anaupou (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Embarked on SS Manukau at Wellington 13 June 1918 and disembarked at Suez ex SS Port Lyttleton 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to hospital 7 October 1918 to 25 October 1918.
Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
17/02/1957 (as per Cook Islands death register)
19/02/1957 (as per military headstone)
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