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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Vaine
Last name
TEPURETU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19344
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
1895
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
01/05/1945
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19450108
Headstone/grave location
Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands (across the road from the Hartel Shop in Tupapa near the fishing club).
Next of kin
Rima (mother), Terekia (father), Tangi (1st wife), Maki (2nd wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916. Disembarked from SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 10 March 1917. On 28 July 1917 he was admitted to 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital at El Arish with a gun shot wound (GSW) to the left arm. Transferred to 24th Stationary Hospital, Kantara 28 July 1917 and to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia on 4 August 1917. Rejoined the Rarotongan Company at Belah 23 August 1917. From 5 October 1917 to 9 November 1917 was attached to 10th Heavy Battery Royal Artillery.
On 2 May 1918 he was admitted to 77th Casualty Clearing Station in Jaffa with conjunctivitis before being transferred to 47th Stationary Hospital in Gaza on 7 May 1918 and then 44th Stationary Hospital, Abbassia on 13 May 1918. Rejoined the Rarotongan Company 28 May 1918. On 25 June 1918 he was admitted to 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital with bronchitis and was in a rest camp in Ismailia from 9 September 1918 to 19 September 1918. Embarked on SS Malta for New Zealand 14 December 1918 and was admitted to the ship's hospital between 29 September 1918 and 7 January 1919, and again admitted 24 January 1919. Discharged 20 March 1919.
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