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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
Maratai
Last name
UA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19343
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Ua MARATAI
Date of birth
1892
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
30/11/1942
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19420158
Headstone/grave location
Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Maratai (father), Taura (mother) Ani Ngapoe (wife), Akepare (niece)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Disembarked ex. Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917 and attached to the 10th Heavy Battery Royal Artillery from 5 October 1917 to 9 November 1917. Admitted to various hospitals with illness and Malaria at Jaffa, Kantara, Abbassia and Moascar from 21 February 1918 to 16 August 1918. Discharged to Duty 31 August 1918. Transferred to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta from Suez 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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