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Final rank:

Company Quartermaster Sergeant

First name/s

Kea Rongomatane

Last name

MATAIO

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19270
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Rongomatane Mataio KEA

Date of birth

1883

Place of birth

Atiu, Cook Islands

Date of death

20/09/1930

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

RARO19300213

Headstone/grave location

Taputapuatea Burial Ground, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Kea te tupua-o-AVAIKI (father), Teiva (mother), Ngamaru (Kea Mataio) (wife)

Additional information

Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga. Promoted to Lance Corporal at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 30 July 1916 and promoted to Sergeant 27 August 1916. Disembarked at Suez ex SS Malwa 27 December 1916 and posted to New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Marched out to El Arish 22 January 1917. Marched out to Kantara 10 March 1917. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 March 1917. Admitted to Hospital “in the field” 30 August 1917. Relinquished T/Sgt 31 August 1917 and appointed Company Quarter Master Sergeant 10 October 1917. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

His name on the Cook Islands Roll of Honour board RSA Nikao Rarotonga and on his military headstone is recorded as 'R.M. KEA.

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