Tariu Kakepare

Forenames

Tariu AWMM

Surname

Kakepare AWMM

Also known as

• Kakepare Tariu AWMM
• Kasper Tariu AWMM
• Kapita Tariu AWMM
• Gasper Tariu AWMM

Service number

WWI 19254 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1889 Cook Islands WW1 Project

Next of kin

WW1 Tariu (father), Areora, Atiu, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 19254 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Nov 1916-24 Jan 1917 AWMM
Manuka 16 November 1916 AWMM Vessel was Manuka AWMM Private AWMM Maori Contingent, 11th Maori Reinforcements, 2nd Rarotongan Contingent AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Manuka then transhipped to "Malwa" at Sydney for Suez.

April 2019 the grave was unmarked due to the interment of another family member.

Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as "Kakepare Tariu"

Death entry recorded in the Catholic Church death records. AWMM

Death

4 Jul 1954 AWMM

Cemetery

Catholic Cemetery, Panama, Rarotonga, Cook Islands AWMM

Memorial name

Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board, RSA Rarotonga AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18055233
  Further Reference
• Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
  https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
  Further Reference
• http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/regional/500-cook-island-soldiers-remembered-exhibition?utm_sour
  Public - Ukarau Francis - Other Relative - 23 April 2015 - Maori TV: Five hundred Cook Islands soldiers will be honoured through an exhibition showing their contribution and sacrifices as they fought alongside Māori of the Pioneer Battalion in the WWI campaign.

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  44: 1
• 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.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• ‘Finding Our Way Back to Atiu’, Parts 1 -4, Cook Islands Television News/Cook Islands WW1 NZEF ANZAC Soldiers Research Project, 2019
• This record was partially compiled from information kindly provided by Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Walker, Cook Islands Military History Research Project
• Information kindly provided by family
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.