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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
Keu
Last name
WILLIAM
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60700
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
William KEU
Date of birth
21 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mauke, Cook Islands
Date of death
29/11/1970
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19700102
Headstone/grave location
Panama Catholic Cemetery, Panama, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Unmarked grave.
Next of kin
William (father), Mauke, Cook Islands, Pue (mother), Mauke, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to the 33rd Casualty Clearing Stations in Beirut and assessed as dangerously ill. Out of danger, he sailed from Beirut on 14 November 1918 for Alexandria and was admitted to 21st General Hospital, Cairo. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918. Discharged 20th of March 1919.
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