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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
Tongia
Last name
TIONI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60686
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
20 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
15/01/1963
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19630002A
Headstone/grave location
Panama Catholic Cemetery, Panama, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Makituki Tioni (wife), Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Embarked 13 June 1918 to disembark at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Returned as an invalid on SS Malta and discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
15/01/1963 (as per Cook Islands death register)
16/01/1963 (as per military headstone)
Until April 2024, the headstone had been on family land at Turangi, Ngatangiia, Rarotonga. The family reunited the headstone with the grave and an unveiling service was held on the eve of Anzac Day, April 24 2024
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