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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
Ma
Last name
RUAPORO
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19263
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Ma Ruaporo PEIAA
Date of birth
20/04/1889
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
18/05/1966
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19660066
Headstone/grave location
Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Peiaa (father), Tangata Moeone (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916. Disembarked at Suez from the SS Malwa 27 December 1916 and was posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Admitted to the 77th Casualty Clearing Station at Jaffa 2 May 1917 with malaria and was transferred to the 47th Stationary Hospital, Gaza on the 6 May 1917 and the 24th Stationary Hospital at Kantara before being transferred to 27th General Hospital, Cairo 9 May 1917. He was admitted to the Aotea Convalescent Home between 13 May 1917 to 17 May 1917 and was then posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot, Moascar. Rejoined the Rarotongan Company 1 July 1918. Admitted to 129th Combined Field Ambulance 5 September 1918 with measles and was evacuated to the 48th Stationary Hospital 15 September 1918, the 44th Stationary Hospital on 23 September and the Military Infection Hospital 26 September 1918 before being admitted to Aotea Convalescent Home between 8 October 1918 and 14 October 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on the SS Malta 14th of December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
In May 2022, the military headstone was not on the grave and was stored with the family in Titikaveka, Rarotonga. In January 2023, the headstone was restored by Paula Paniani and installed on the refurbished grave
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