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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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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)
Link to Online Service Record
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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