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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
Frederick Robert
Last name
BLACK
Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps
19109
Wellington Infantry Regiment
Also known as
Date of birth
24/02/1882
Place of birth
Liverpool, England
Date of death
5/4/1917
Place of death
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
Death registration number
Unknown
Headstone/grave location
Walton and Weybridge (Walton-on-Thames) Cemetery, Surrey, England
Next of kin
Mrs Alice Ann Black (wife), Black Rock, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Archives New Zealand online service record
Additional information
On enlistment in Rarotonga 6 April 1916 he was living with his family at Black Rock, Rarotonga. Admitted to Featherston Camp Hospital between 27 May 1916 and 2 June 1916 with a septic ankle. Joined 2nd Battalion Wellington Infantry Regiment in France 23 October 1916. Died 2nd New Zealand General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames of pneumonia 5 April 1917 aged 36 years.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/402069/frederick-robert-black/
"Son of John Alexander and Anne Black; husband of Alice Ann Black, of Black Rock, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Born at Liverpool, England."
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