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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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Final rank:
Corporal
First name/s
Uma
Last name
TIPUTA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19312
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tiputa UMA
Umata
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
16/11/1942
Place of death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death registration number
ATIU19420027
Headstone/grave location
Mapumai, Atiu, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Uma (father), Atiu, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Disembarked at Suez from SS Malwa 27 December 1916 and posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Posted to Rarotongan Company 7 July 1917. Returned on SS Malta and discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records name as 'T. UMA'.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as 'TIPUTA UMA'.
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