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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
Marearai
Last name
AERENGAMATE
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60696
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
18/20 years on enlistment (different ages in war service records)
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
04/09/1954
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19540088
Headstone/grave location
Cook Islands Christian Church, Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Aerengamate (father), Arati Vaine (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Rarotonga 8 February 1918 and at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 20 September 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Date of death:
04/09/1954 (as per Cook Islands death register)
05/09/1954 (as per military headstone)
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