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Vaitoti Tupa

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  • Service number
    WWI 19310 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Tupa Vaitoti AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Vaitoti AWMM
  • Surname
    Tupa AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Tupa Vaitoti AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 19310 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    6 March 1883 AWMM Rarotonga, Cook Islands AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Epi (father-in-law), Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Pacific Islands AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 19310 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Planter/Civilian AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

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

    Next of kin/Family member/s: Epi (Father-in-Law); Ranginui (Wife)

    Notes: Cook Islands Roll of Honour Board records his name as "T VIATOTI" AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    3 June 1948 AWMM
    Age 65 AWMM
    Rarotonga, Cook Islands AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • I am one of the granddaughters of the late PRIVATE VAITOTI TUPA.
    My Mother is Maraea Mata nee TUPA this is her Dad, she is still living on the Island of RAROTONGA till now.
    I wishing I had meet my grandfather , and it would have been an honour to have known and meet him.
    Im glad I have a photo of him.
    Public - Terri - Direct descendant - 25 April 2020
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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R22014076
    Further Reference
  • References
    • 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
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      44: 2 AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. 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

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25 April 2020Terri SydneyDirect descendant

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