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Final rank:

Lance Corporal

First name/s

Mata

Last name

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

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 in the Nikao Cemetery April 2017. A memorial was built in the Nikao Cemetery using the headstone in October 2018.

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