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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:
Lance Corporal
First name/s
Mata
Last name
ANGENE
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19264
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
01/01/1896
Place of birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of death
24/01/1975
Place of death
Auckland, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1975/25951
Headstone/grave location
Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Next of kin
Angene (father), Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 1 June 1916 in Rarotonga. Embarked on SS Manuka 16 November 1916 and disembarked in Egypt 17 December 1916. Posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot 10 March 1917 and to the Rarotongan Company September 1917. Admitted to 27th General Hospital at Abbassia from 17 to 23 August 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 1 October 1918. Transferred to the 44th Stationary Hospital 13 to 19 October 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Name not listed on Atiu cenotaph April 2019.
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