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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
Ngaumetua
Last name
VAEVAEONGO
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60747
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
20 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Date of death
16/06/1963
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19630034
Headstone/grave location
Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Vaa (mother), Vaevaeongo (father), Rima Ria (wife)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Admitted to 33rd Casualty Clearing Station in Jaffa 26 September 1918 with pyrexia and then transferred to 69th General Hospital at Belah from 29 September 1918 to 22 October 1918. Posted to New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot 23 October 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 12 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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