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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Tuanu
Last name
RIMA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60695
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Tuanuiti RIMA
Date of birth
25 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
11/12/1928
Place of death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MANG19280029
Headstone/grave location
Opposite Tikura Community Hall, Oneroa, Mangaia
Next of kin
Ngaupoka Rima (wife), Mangaia, Rima (father), Atiu, Ngau (mother), Mangaia
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 4 February 1918 at Rarotonga and at Narrow Neck Military Training Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to various hospitals at Jaffa, Gaza and Kantara from 25 to 30 September 1918 and was then discharged to duty. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
One child documented on enlistment - Tutai, born 1915.
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