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Kaitara Toto

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  • Service number
    WWI 19256 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Kaitara Totou AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • Army Public - Ella - Researcher - 24 August 2017 - Weddell, H. Soldiers from the Pacific (2016). Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
  • Last rank
  • War
Roll of honour, listing World War 1 soldiers from the Cook Islands. Ref: 1/1-006732-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. This is one of two honours boards. The second relates to the Fourth and Fifth contingents. Both are now housed in the Pioneer Lounge of the Cook Islands RSA. The Two boards originally stood in the old courthouse, but were moved just before a fire destroyed the building. (Information from Henry Wichman of Rarotonga, 2010). /records/22480864

Roll of honour, listing World War 1 soldiers from the Cook Islands. Ref: 1/1-006732-G. Alexander Tur …

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Identity

  • Title
  • Forenames
    Kaitara AWMM
  • Surname
    Toto AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Kaitara Totou AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 19256 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1895 AWMM ManihikiCook Islands AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Toto (father), Avarua, Tutakimoa, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • Army Public - Ella - Researcher - 24 August 2017 - Weddell, H. Soldiers from the Pacific (2016). Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
  • Service number
    WWI 19256 AWMM
  • Military service
    2nd and 3rd Rarotongan Contingents Public - Ella - Researcher - 24 August 2017 - Weddell, H. Soldiers from the Pacific (2016). Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • 07/03/1951 (as per Cook Islands Death Register)
    06/03/1951 (as per military headstone) AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    6 March 1951 AWMM
    RarotongaCook Islands AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Catholic Cemetery, Panama, Rarotonga, Cook Islands AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board, RSA Rarotonga AWMM

Roll of Honour

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  • He is my Grand father by birth
    Public - Joe - Child - 24 April 2015
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      85: 18 AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
    • This record was partially compiled from information kindly provided by Bobby Nicholas, Paula Paniani and Cate Walker, Cook Islands WW1 NZEF ANZAC Soldiers Research Project AWMM

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24 August 2017EllaAucklandResearcher
24 April 2015JoeSydney nswChild

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