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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
Moeau
Last name
METUA
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
16/1188
New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion, 1st Rarotongan Contingent
Also known as
Date of birth
04/10/1895
Place of birth
Papua New Guinea
Date of death
27/03/1924
Place of death
Wellington, New Zealand
Death registration number
NZ1924/3657
Headstone/grave location
Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand
Next of kin
Moeau (father), Arorangi, Rarotonga
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
Enlisted at Rarotonga 29th September 1915. Served in France and later became ill and was evacuated to the UK. On 27 August 1917 he was declared medically unfit and embarked for New Zealand on the New Zealand Hospital Ship Marama 21 November 1917. Discharged 16 April 1918. His death was attributed to his war service.
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