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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)
Turakina
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
UU
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
19342
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Uu TURAKINA
Uu TIPOKI
Date of Birth
1894
Place of Birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of Death
09/06/1964
Place of Death
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
AITU19640020
Headstone/Grave Location
Arekaua, Arutanga, Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Next of Kin
Turakina (father), Rarotonga, Pativai Te Akaranga (wife)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Disembarked at Suez 27 December 1916 and was posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Admitted to 26th Stationary Hospital in Ismailia 8 April 1917 and then 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital, Moascar 2 October 1917. Embarked for New Zealand 12 November 1917 from Suez on SS Wiltshire and discharged 23 February 1918.
Date of death:
09/06/1964 (as per Cook Islands death register)
08/06/1964 (as per military headstone)
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