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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 (as per enlistment record)
Taokete
Last Name or Only Name Given (as per enlistment record)
RAE
Service Number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19300
2nd Rarotongan Contingent
Also Known As
Rae TAOKOTE
Are TAOKOTE
Date of Birth
1896
Place of Birth
Atiu, Cook Islands
Date of Death
06/08/1940
Place of Death
Atiu, Cook Islands
Death Registration Number
Unknown
Headstone/Grave Location
Headstone location: Ngatiarua Village, Atiu. Documented April 2019.
In April 2025, we were taken to the overgrown grave location inland from Areora, Atiu.
Next of Kin
Taokete (brother), Atiu, Cook Islands
Link to Online Service Record
Additional Information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 1 July 1916. Disembarked from SS Malwa at Suez 27 December 1916 and was posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot. Posted to the Rarotongan Company 7 April 1917. Admitted to 129th Field Ambulance 15 September 1918 with measles and transferred to 48th Stationary Hospital from 15 to 26 September 1918. Then admitted to Aotea Convalescent Home until 18 October 1918. Embarked on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
Cook Islands Roll of Honour board at RSA Rarotonga records name as “R TAOKETE”.
Listed on the Atiu cenotaph as “ARE TAOKETE”.
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