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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
John Ruru
Last name
MAOATE
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60687
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
1897
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
16/12/1924
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19240572
Headstone/grave location
Turangi, Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Maoate (father), Ngatangiia, Rarotonga, Rabara (mother), Samoa
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and transferred to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919. Died in Rarotonga 16 December 1924 of tuberculosis.
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