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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Mate

Last name

MAURIAITI

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19272 
2nd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Mate MORIAITI
Mate MAURIA

Date of birth

1896

Place of birth

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Date of death

04/11/1946

Place of death

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Death registration number

MANG19460028

Headstone/grave location

Cook Islands Christian Church, Ivirua Rd, Ivirua, Mangaia, Cook Islands

Next of kin

Mauriaiti (father), Mangaia, Cook Islands

Additional information

Enlisted 9 July 1916. Disembarked at Suez 27 December 1916 and was employed at the NZ Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot at Moascar. Marched into Kantara 17 April 1917. On 11 August 1918 he was admitted to the 48th Stationary Hospital, Gaza with measles. He was transferred to the 24th Stationary Hospital at Abbassia on 14 August 1918 before being transferred to the 27th General Hospital in Cairo. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 1 October 1918. Returned to New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at records name as 'M. Mate'.

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