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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Turakina
Last name
UU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
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)
Archives New Zealand 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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