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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:
Private
First name/s
Kaiti
Last name
KA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60737
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
12/03/1897
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
Unknown
Place of death
Unknown
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Ka Vaine (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Was sick in hospital Cairo 25 October 1918 and again on SS Malta when returning to New Zealand. He was off-loaded for medical treatment in quarantine at Fremantle, Australia with serious pneumonia and influenza on 12 January 1919 and returned to New Zealand with Rarotongan Contingent Medic Sergeant Percy Shearman in a party of 13 sick soldiers. Discharged 9 July 1919.
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