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Highest Rank:

Private

First Name/s (as per enlistment record)

Joe

Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)

HEATHER

Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in

60751
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also Known As

Joseph HEATHER

Date of Birth

10/05/1901 (as per headstone)

Place of Birth

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Date of Death

17/03/1972

Place of Death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death Registration Number

RARO19720022

Headstone/Grave Location

Avatiu Valley, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of Kin

Stanley Heather (father), Upoko Heather (nee Ikitamu) Upoko Exham (mother)

Additional Information

Enlisted in Rarotonga 4 February 1918. Embarked on SS Manuka at Wellington 13 June 1918 for Sydney and embarked on SS Lyttleton for Suez 24 June 1918. Disembarked in Suez 4 August 1918 and was posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked to New Zealand SS Malta and arrived in Wellington 28 January 1919 and discharged 20 March 1919.

Original photos of the headstone were taken in April 2019. Photos of the new military headstone and burial ground were taken in April 2025, and our team relettered the private granite headstones in May 2025.

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