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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
Maiti
Last name
RAU
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60746
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Maiti a Tauta
Maiti a Tauta Taeakekore
Date of birth
25 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Date of death
19/08/1961
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19610044
Headstone/grave location
Unknown
Next of kin
Kopu Rau (wife), Tauta (aka Tauta Taeakekore) (father) and Poupare (aka Poupouvare) (mother)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp Auckland New Zealand 12 March 1918. Embarked 13 June 1918 for Egypt, and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to Rarotongan Company 18 September 1918. Embarked for New Zealand on SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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