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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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Highest Rank:
Private
First Name/s (as per enlistment record)
Takoto
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
MATA
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps served in
19268
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Matakeu TAKOTO
Mata TAKOTO
Matakeu AUAI
Date of Birth
1893
Place of Birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of Death
02/06/1925
Place of Death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
ATIU19250217
Headstone/Grave Location
Teenui, Atiu, Cook Islands
Next of Kin
Takato (brother) Atiu, Cook Islands, Auai (father), Pare (mother), Kirimoke (wife)
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga. Disembarked ex. Malwa 27 December 1916 and served with the Rarotongan Company in Jaffa. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Died 2 June 1925 in Atiu of tuberculosis. Other records state he died 3 June 1925.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Nikao Rarotonga records his name as 'M. TAKATO'.
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