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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Rua Iti

Last name

RUAVAIKATAU

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

60714
3rd Rarotongan Contingent

Also known as

Rua VAIKATAU

Date of birth

19 years of age on enlistment

Place of birth

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Date of death

24/06/1965 (as per military service records and headstone only)

Place of death

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Death registration number

Unknown

Headstone/grave location

Unknown

Next of kin

Rua Vaikatau (father), Muri, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Mata (mother)

Additional information

Attested in Rarotonga 12 March 1918 and enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 6 June 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.

Our research indicates that this soldier is likely to be buried in Titikaveka, Rarotonga. Undelivered military headstone located at RSA, Nikao, Rarotonga.

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