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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Taokete

Last name

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
Grave location unknown (April 2019)

Next of kin

Taokete (brother), Atiu, Cook Islands

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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