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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 (as per enlistment record)
Mata
Last name or only name given (as per enlistment record)
METUATANE
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60671
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
21 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date of death
12/08/1925
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Headstone memorial at Nikao Cemetery, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Metuatane (father), Aitutaki, Cook Islands. Maria (mother), Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 4 February 1918 and 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand . Disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Discharged 20 March 1919.
Headstone found close to the lagoon bank in the Nikao Cemetery April 2017. The headstone has been dislodged from the grave in a hurricane or storm surge, and the grave may have washed away. A memorial was built in the Nikao Cemetery using the headstone in October 2018.
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