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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
Teokotai
Last name
TAOPUA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60780
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
19 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
14/09/1945
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19450155
Headstone/grave location
Takuvaine Valley Cemetery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Taopua (father), Parekura, Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 and served with the NZ Mounted Rifle Bde. Training Regiment and Base Depot. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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