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Final rank:

Private

First name/s

Vaimutu

Last name

MAMANU

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

19267
2nd Rarotongan Contingent 

Also known as

Mamanu Ngatae VAIMUTU
Mamanu Ngatae VAIMOTU

Date of birth

1894

Place of birth

Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Date of death

02/07/1962

Place of death

Whanganui, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1962/44640

Headstone/grave location

Whanganui Cemetery, Whanganui, New Zealand

Next of kin

Miss Vaimutu (sister), Rarotonga, Ritia (wife)

Additional information

Enlisted 1 July 1916 in Rarotonga. Disembarked at Suez from SS Malwa 29 December 1916 and posted to New Zealand Mounted Rifles and Training Regiment and Base Depot. Posted to Rarotongan Company 10 March 1917. Admitted to various hospitals at Jaffa, Kantara, Abbassia and Heliopolis from 25 July 1918 to 14 August 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.

Our research indicates that Pte Samuela Mana 19266 is one of three brothers who enlisted.
His brothers are:
Pte. Koria Manu (Koria Samuela) 19248
Pte. Mataputa Samuela 60786

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