Fredrick Obadiah Nicholls

Forenames

Fredrick Obadiah AWMM

Surname

Nicholls AWMM

Also known as

Fredrick Nicholls AWMM

Service number

WWI 19371 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

25th February 1895

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 July 2024 - Military Record

Place of birth

Te Puke

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 July 2024 - Military Record

Birth notes

Son of Humphrey NICHOLLS of Thames & Ngakoura TAMIHANA of Te Puke

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 July 2024 - Military Record

Next of kin

• Humphrey Nicholls (father), Thames, New Zealand AWMM
• Brother of Thompson Nicholls
  Public - Patrick - Other Relative - 22 April 2015 - Family papers

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 19371 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 02 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 73 AWMM Vessel was Opawa AWMM Private AWMM 12th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Son of Humphrey and Ngakoura Tamihana Nicholls, of Te Puke

Next of Kin: Mrs N. Tamihana, Te Puke, Tauranga (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

6 Oct 1918 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM XVI. A. 1. AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21380402
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/290760/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/290760
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  49: 22
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.