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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
Aio
Last name
TARIPO
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60727
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
11/11/1898
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
30/08/1959
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19590057
Headstone/grave location
Taputapuatea Burial Ground, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Taripo (father) born Tahiti, Society Islands, Tauira (mother) born Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918. Disembarked in Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to hospital 26 September 1918 and again with pyrexia in Gaza 30 September 1918 and with malaria 1 October 1918. Discharged to duty 2 October 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14th of December 1918. Discharged 20th of March 1919.
Date of death:
30/08/1959 (as per Cook Islands death register)
31/08/1959 (as per military headstone)
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