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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Tunu
Last name
PARAU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60668
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Teuru PARAU
TeUnu PARAU
Date of birth
30 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
06/04/1955
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19550002
Headstone/grave location
Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tumataiapo (brother), Tupapa, Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918 and was posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. He was sick on SS Malta and was quarantined for medical treatment at Fremantle, Australia on 12 January 1919. Returned to New Zealand via Sydney 7 May 1919 and discharged on 9 July 1919.
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