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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Ito J
Last name
TUMU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19245
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Ito Jobu IOPU
Date of birth
19/01/1894
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
05/09/1922
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19220393
Headstone/grave location
Takuvaine Valley Cemetery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Tekura (mother), Iobu Tumu / Akapi (father), Vaine (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916. Disembarked ex SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916 and posted to New Zealand Training Unit and Depot, Moascar. Posted to New Zealand Military Regiment and Base Depot 10 March 1917. Posted to Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Admitted to various hospitals from 3 September to 15 November 1917. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 20 November 1917, and onto Training Regiment 22 November 1917. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta from Suez 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919. Died 5 September 1922 in Rarotonga of tuberculosis.
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