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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Mai
Last name
IAVETA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60659
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Maireroa IAVETA
Iaveta MAI
Iaveta MAIREROA
Date of birth
07/03/1898
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
29/02/1948
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19480200
Headstone/grave location
Avaavaroa Rd, Vaimaanga, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Pumatuni Iaveta (father), Mangaia, Puna (mother), Mangaia
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Was ill on return from the Middle East and was offloaded for medical treatment and quarantine at Freemantle, Australia 12 January 1919 with simple pneumonia, but on 23 January 1919 was reported as seriously ill. By 28 January 1919 he was recovering and classified as a convalescent. Returned from Australia as part of the party organised by Sergent Shearman. Discharged 9 July 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at the RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'I MAI'.
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