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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
Taiori
Last name
PAKU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
84544
4th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
19 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
03/03/1920
Place of death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death registration number
ATIU19200095
Headstone/grave location
Headstone is on Rarotonga with family (2024)
Next of kin
Paku Tamauti (father), Takaiti (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested in Rarotonga 12 June 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 10 July 1918. Discharged 7 December 1918.
Date of death:
3/3/1920 (as per Cook Islands death register)
15/12/1918 (as per headstone inscription)
Pte. Taiori Paku is a brother of Pte. Teariki Kaokore Paku 19311.
Not listed on the Atiu cenotaph April 2019
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