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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:
Corporal
First name/s
Manu
Last name
KETE
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
5th Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
26 years of age on enlistment
Place of birth
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date of death
11/01/1938
Place of death
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Death registration number
AITU19380865
Headstone/grave location
Cook Islands Christian Church, Arutanga, Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Next of kin
Unknown
Additional information
Enlisted in Rarotonga 28 October 1918. Disembarked in Wellington 6 November 1918. Due to the signing of the Armistice on November 11 1918, he was discharged 13 November at Trentham Military Camp. Embarked on SS Moana for Rarotonga 30 November 1918 and arrived in Rarotonga 6 December 1918.
The 5th Rarotongan Contingent soldiers from Aitutaki departed Rarotonga 12 January 1919 on the schooner Toafa Haamia bound for Aitutaki.
No online war service record
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