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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
Omao
Last name
OMAO
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60654
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
31 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Raiatea, Society Islands (French Polynesia)
Date of death
06/05/1963
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19630019A
Headstone/grave location
Tipuka, Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Ruako Omao (wife) Rarotonga, Omao (father), Raiatea. Tapare (mother), Raiatea
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Embarked 13 June 1918 for Egypt, and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Was possibly buried where the Rarotonga International Airport is now located.
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