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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Makitae
Last name
RIMA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60773
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Rima MAKITAE
Date of birth
19 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
14/02/1950
Place of death
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MANG1950024A
Headstone/grave location
Maungainano, Tavaenga, Oneroa, Mangaia, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Rima (father)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Attested in Rarotonga 4 February 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'R. Makitae'.
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