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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
Akara ki mua e akara katoa ki muri
To be able to look forward, you must be able to look back
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Angareu
Last name
OKIRUAITI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60655
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
21 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
07/07/1952
Place of death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MANG19520011
Headstone/grave location
Cook Islands Christian Church, Oneroa, Mangaia, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Okiruaita (father), Mangaia. Teremate (mother), Mangaia. Aerengamataora (wife), Mangaia
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp, Auckland New Zealand. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and joined the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Passed away 7 July 1952 on Mangaia, although his headstone records his date of death as 8 July 1952.
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