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Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
Preserving Cook Islands Military History
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Final rank:
Private
First name/s
Ruatea
Last name
MATEKOI
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60703
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Matekoi RUATEA
Matekoi Ruatea VAERURANGI
Date of birth
20 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mauke, Cook Islands
Date of death
26/05/1920
Place of death
Mauke, Cook Islands
Death registration number
MAUK19200055
Headstone/grave location
Oti Vaeruarangi Family Home, Areora, Oiretumu, Mauke, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Mate Koi (father), Mauke, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 16th February 1918. Discharged 15th June 1918 medically unfit with tuberculosis and did not proceed overseas.
Auckland War Memorial Museum Online Cenotaph has biographical information from descendants stating that his name was Matekoi Ruatea VAERUARANGI, and that his parents’ names were Vaeruarangi and Metuaone: https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C122007
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