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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
Raea
Last name
RAEAMETUA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60709
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
19 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mauke, Cook Islands
Date of death
17/08/1947
Place of death
Mauke, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MAUK19470008
Headstone/grave location
Rangituarua, Kimiangatau, Mauke, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Raeametua (father), Ngatama (mother) Mauke, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 in Rarotonga. Disembarked 3 August 1918 at Suez. Admitted to the Government Hospital and transferred to the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital, Moascar between 4 August 1918 and 1 October 1918. Posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and was discharged 20 March 1919.
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