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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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Highest Rank:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Tuanu
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
RIMA
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
60695
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Tuanuiti RIMA
Date of Birth
25 years of age on enlistment
Place of Birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of Death
11/12/1928
Place of Death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
MANG19280029
Headstone/Grave Location
Opposite Tikura Community Hall, Oneroa, Mangaia
Next of Kin
Ngaupoka Rima (wife), Mangaia, Rima (father), Atiu, Ngau (mother), Mangaia
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted 4 February 1918 at Rarotonga and at Narrow Neck Military Training Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to various hospitals at Jaffa, Gaza and Kantara from 25 to 30 September 1918 and was then discharged to duty. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
One child documented on enlistment - Tutai, born 1915.
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