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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Turangatai

Last name

KAKAO

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60735
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Date of birth

34 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Date of death

2/10/1948

Place of death

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Death registration number

MANG19480018

Headstone/grave location

Military headstone memorial in Ivirua CICC grounds, Ivirua, Mangaia, Cook Islands. Burial location unknown.

Next of kin

Rimaongo (sister), Mangaia

Additional information

Attested in Rarotonga 12 February 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918.Embarked 13 June 1918 for Egypt. Disembarked 4 August 1918 at Suez. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

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