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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
Joseph
Last name
RIGOT
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19298
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
02/11/1885 or 16/10/1901
Place of birth
Tahiti
Date of death
Unknown
Place of death
Unknown
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Mrs Metuaone (wife), Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga. Posted to Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. On 11 September 1917 evacuated ill to 66th Casualty Clearing Station and on 15 September 1917 by the 6th Hospital Train to the 45th Stationary Hospital, Kantara and then to 32nd Stationary Hospital in Abbassia. Returned to the Rarotongan Company 28 September 1917. On 20 May 1918 was employed as the company cook. Returned on SS Malta and discharged 20 March 1919.
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