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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
Teokotai
Last name
TEOKOTAI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60783
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
25 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Paumotu, Society Islands (French Polynesia)
Date of death
06/03/1954
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19540107
Headstone/grave location
Grave location unknown.
Undelivered military headstone is located at the RSA, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Teokotai (father), Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, Tangia (mother) Paumotu, Society Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested in Rarotonga 4 February 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez ex. SS Port Lyttleton 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
06/03/1954 (as per Cook Islands death register)
07/03/1954 (as per military headstone)
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