Raitia Tepuretu

Forenames

Raitia AWMM

Surname

Tepuretu AWMM

Also known as

• Araitia Tepuretu AWMM
• Tepuretu Araitia Mataiapo AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1200 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1892 Military Personnel File

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs Metua Tepuretu (wife), Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1200 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 42 or HMNZT 43 or HMNZT 44 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua AWMM Sergeant AWMM Rarotongans, attached A Company AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Other, WWI AWMM
Nature of injury: G.S.W. lt. buttock Pension: 10/- Percent: [Not stated] Source: New Zealand. Army (c.1920). A further list of the names of ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% AWMM

Last rank

WW1 New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Death

12 Jun 1984 RARO19840031A

Cemetery

Tupapa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands AWMM

Memorial name

Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board, RSA Rarotonga AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7824920
  Further Reference
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22203137
  Further Reference
• Manava Toa: the Cook Islands in WWI
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/stories/blog/2019/manava-toa-the-cook-islands-in-wwi?lang=en-nz
  Further Reference
• Pine, Madison. Year in Review: Online Cenotaph 2019. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira. First published: 11 December 2019
  https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/2019-online-cenotaph
  Further Reference
• Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
  https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  25: 2
• New Zealand. Army (c.1920). A further list of the names of ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% : compiled from returns supplied by the Commissioner of Pensions, in respect to: a) Permanent war pensions; and from returns supplied by the Director-General of Medical Services, regarding: b) discharged hospital patients; assessed as suffering permanent disability, and who are whilst in hospital, receiving full pensions. New Zealand. Director-General of Medical Services.
• Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Information kindly provided by family
• This record was partially compiled from information kindly provided by Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Walker, Cook Islands Military History Research Project
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.