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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Terepai

Last name

NGAATA

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19280
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

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Date of birth

1896

Place of birth

Atiu, Cook Islands

Date of death

Unknown

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

Unknown

Headstone/grave location

Located in an unmarked grave in an overgrown cemetery, Takuvaine Valley, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Tauturu (father), Atiu, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916 and disembarked in Egypt 27 December 1916 to be posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment & Base Depot. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 20 May 1917. Admitted to 54th Casualty Clearing Station 4 July 1917 and to the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital, El Arish on 6 July 1917, to 24th Stationary Hospital, Kantara 7 July 1917 and the 27th General Hospital, Abbassia 10 July 1917. Transferred to Aotea Convalescent Home 14 July 1917 to 21 July 1917 and posted back to the Moascar depot before rejoining the Rarotongan Company 4 August 1917. Admitted to 45th Stationary Hospital with pyrexia on 21 November 1917 and on 26 November 1917 to 27th General Hospital, Abbassia, before being admitted to Aotea Convalescent Home until 6 December 1917. From 7 December 1917 to 23 December 1917 he was at a rest camp. He rejoined the Rarotongan Company 3 January 1918 and on 3 April 1918 was admitted to 24th Stationary Hospital before being transferred to 27th General Hospital 5 April 1918. Transferred to the Aotea Convalescent Home 18 April 1918. Rejoined the Rarotongan Company 1 July 1918 and embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919.

Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at the RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as ’N. Terepai’.

Unmarked grave (May 2024).

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