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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 (as per enlistment record)
Tiakana
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
POTAI
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60641
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Tiakana Ngati KAO (as per headstone)
Date of Birth
23/01/1899
Place of Birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of Death
04/09/1950
Place of Death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death Registration Number
NZ1950/28083
Headstone/Grave Location
Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of Kin
Kao Potai (father), Rarotonga. Rangi (mother), Rarotonga, Leonie (wife, as per headstone inscription)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde. Training Regiment and Base Depot. Embarked for New Zealand 14 December 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919 in Wellington, New Zealand. On the SS Malta roll list his first and last names are reversed as they are in some NZEF documentation.
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