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Record Detail |
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| Full Name: |
Private Frederick Henry Needham |
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| Rank Last Held: |
Private |
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| Forename(s): |
Frederick Henry |
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| Surname: |
Needham |
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| War: |
World War I, 1914-1918 |
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| Serial No.: |
12/2065 |
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| First Known Rank: |
Corporal |
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| Next of Kin: |
H.W. Needham (father), Woodford Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Marital Status: |
Single |
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| Enlistment Address: |
Woodford Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Military District: |
Auckland |
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| Body on Embarkation: |
4th Reinforcements |
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| Embarkation Unit: |
Auckland Infantry Battalion |
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| Embarkation Date: |
17 April 1915 |
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| Place of Embarkation: |
Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Transport: |
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| Vessel: |
Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo |
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| Destination: |
Suez, Egypt (25 May 1915) |
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| Page on Nominal Roll: |
533 |
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| Last Unit Served: |
Auckland Infantry Battalion |
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| Place of Death: |
Gallipoli, Turkey |
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| Date of Death: |
8 August 1915 |
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| Year of Death: |
1915 |
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| Cause of Death: |
Killed in action |
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| Biographical Notes: |
- Was the son of Mr and Mrs H.W. Needham of Woodford Road, Mt Eden Auckland.
- He left New Zealand with the 4th Reinforcements on the 17th April 1915. He was killed in action on the assault on the Heights of Sari Bair adjacent to the Chunuk Bair Ridge on the eighth of August 1915. He was aged 27. He was killed with 92 of his Regiment during this attack, all were positively identified as killed in action and the bodies left in the positions where killed. These men were not buried until the Year of 1920 by the British War Graves Commission. None could be identified, and were placed in individual graves with these words on the Grave Cross.
- "A New Zealand Soldier known unto God".
- His name is on the New Zealand Memorial at the summit of Chunuk Bair.
- This information has been supplied by an Auckland relative.
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| Description of Image: |
Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1915 |
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| Further References: |
Search http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz for information about this person's Military Personnel File. Use the Simple Search option. |
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| Sources Used: |
Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume I. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1914-1919 |
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