Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History​

Kia Orana. This website serves as a repository for the ongoing research our team has undertaken voluntarily since 2016. We are adding further information daily, including service details and images from our vast collection.

 

We hope that our website will encourage all Cook Islanders to take ownership of our research, learn from it, be proud of it, and let it grow.

We have included in this online cenotaph service personnel who were living in the Cook Islands on enlistment, those who were posted to the Rarotongan Company/Contingents during WWI or had a connection to the Cook Islands through work or marriage. We have also included service personnel from any country who served during war or peacetime and are buried or memorialised in the Cook Islands.

The Cook Islands Online Cenotaph WWI Content can be found here.​

Apart from our extensive WWI research, we have also researched WWII including Coastwatchers/Radio Operators and those who served overseas. We will be adding this information to the Online Cenotaph in due course, along with all deceased soldiers from the Cook Islands and those who were of Cook Islands descent and served in the Armed Forces in any conflict or during peacetime. 

If you are searching for a person, please use the Search Cenotaph button above by entering a name, a service number or an island name. If you require any help or further information please send us a message via the

Contact Us menu option above.

We welcome feedback and corrections along with information or photos to add to this website.

Meitaki maata.