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Record Detail |
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| Full Name: |
Frederick Gordon Price |
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| Forename(s): |
Frederick Gordon |
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| Surname: |
Price |
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| War: |
South African War, 1899-1902 |
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| Serial No.: |
13 |
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| Date of Birth: |
1871 |
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| First Known Rank: |
Corporal |
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| Occupation before Enlistment: |
Farmer |
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| Next of Kin: |
Mrs Mary Price (mother), Picton, Marlborough, New Zealand |
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| Embarkation Unit: |
First Contingent, No.1 Company |
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| Embarkation Date: |
21 October 1899 |
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| Place of Embarkation: |
Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Vessel: |
Waiwera |
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| Destination: |
Durban, South Africa |
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| Campaigns: |
- Present at Kimberley Camp
- Driefontein
- Transvaal
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| Military Awards: |
- Queen's South Africa Medal
- King's South Africa Medal (South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 Clasps)
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| Last Unit Served: |
7th New Zealand Mounted Rifles |
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| Place of Death: |
Johannesburg, South Africa |
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| Date of Death: |
February 1944 |
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| Age at Death: |
73 |
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| Year of Death: |
1944 |
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| Biographical Notes: |
- Price returned to New Zealand on the S.S. 'Harleck Castle' but later joined the Staff 7 NZMR as 4060 Regimental Sergeant-Major, sailing aboard S.S. 'Gulf of Taranto' from Wellington on 6 April 1901. (Stowers, p.153)
- After the war Price stayed in Transvaal working in the diamond mines.
- Price also served in World War One in East Africa.
- His sister was the first New Zealand Nurse in France to be decorated with the Royal Red Cross, presented by King George. (Stowers, p.153)
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| Postwar Occupation: |
Miner |
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| Description of Image: |
Portrait |
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| Further References: |
- New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War. URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/the-south-african-boer-war/introduction
- St Clair Inglis, A., 'Souvenir Album of the First New Zealand Contingent South African War', Auckland, 1902
- Stowers, Richard, 'Kiwi Versus Boer: The First New Zealand Mounted Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902', Hamilton, 1992
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| Previous Military Experience: |
Waverly Mounted Rifles |
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