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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
Makuru
Last name
MATAPO
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
60774
3rd Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
20 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Mauke, Cook Islands
Date of death
02/06/1945
Place of death
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Death registration number
RARO19460213
Headstone/grave location
Beside the Cook Islands Christian Church, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Matapo (father)
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted 12 March 1918 at Narrow Neck Training Camp Auckland New Zealand. Embarked from Wellington 13 June 1918 and disembarked at Suez 4 August 1918. Posted to the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Bde Training Regiment and Base Depot 4 August 1918. Embarked for New Zealand per SS Malta 14 December 1918 and discharged 20 March 1919.
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