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Final rank:

Sergeant Major

First name/s

Frederick

Last name

HOLMES

Service number and Regiment/Unit/Corps

16/1226
3rd & 9th Māori Reinforcements, New Zealand (Māori) Pioneer Battalion
Sergeant Major of the Niuean & Rarotongan Company

Also known as

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Date of birth

1870 (as per war service record)

Place of birth

London, England, United Kingdom

Date of death

01/03/1918

Place of death

Auckland, New Zealand

Death registration number

NZ1918/515

Headstone/grave location

Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
Soldiers Area B, Row 1, Grave 49

Next of kin

Mrs F. Ashley (aunt), c/o Mrs Hibbert, 1 Hornsby Rise Gardens, Crouch End, London, England

Additional information

Enlisted at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp 26 October 1915. He was employed as a Police Officer at Niue on behalf of the New Zealand Government and assisted to train the Niuean Contingent. Had previous experience in Imperial Forces and Legion of Frontiersmen. Was appointed Company Sergeant Major of the Niuean and Rarotongan Company. Disembarked from SS Navua at Suez 15 March 1916 and embarked at Alexandria for Marseille 20 May 1916. Then embarked and departed United Kingdom 14 July 1916. Returned to duty at Narrow Neck Military Training Camp 25 September 1916 when he embarked at Auckland on 14 October 1916 with the 9th Maori Reinforcements and 18th Reinforcements to disembark at Plymouth, United Kingdom 29 December 1916. Posted as the Regimental Sergeant Major of the New Zealand Command Depot, Codford, United Kingdom on 18 January 1917 but was invalided to New Zealand on 10 March 1917 on SS Remuera ex Plymouth and was discharged 5 June 1917.

Images and documents (click on images to enlarge)

Image credits and references

Headstone image source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47202584/frederick-holmes

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