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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
Metua
Last name
AMUPOE
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60691
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Metua HAMPOY
Metua HAMBOY
Metua AMBOY
Date of birth
20 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mauke, Cook Islands
Date of death
11/03/1964
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19640026
Headstone/grave location
Nikao Cemetery, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Miss Rina Amupoe (sister), Mauke, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918, disembarked in Suez on 4 August 1918 and posted to the Rarotongan Company on 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
His military headstone was found submerged in the Nikao Cemetery in April 2017, and his descendants built a memorial in 2018.
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