Frank Forbes Reid

Forenames

Frank Forbes AWMM

Surname

Reid AWMM

Service number

WWI 55868 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Birth

31 Oct 1895 AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs Margaret Hunter Reid (mother), Clareville, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Nov 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 55868 AWMM

Military training

Featherston Camp AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 15 May 1917 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM
Postal Worker/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Nov 1917-07 Jan 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 97 AWMM Vessel was RMS Tahiti AWMM Private AWMM 31st Reinforcements, Specialist Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment AWMM

Frank Reid was the son of Charles and Margaret Reid. Born at Clareville.

He was working for the Post and Telegraph Company, and an acting Postmaster when he went to war.

Sling Camp was the main base for New Zealand troops in Britain. Reinforcements arriving in Britain were sent there for training. Soldiers from the front also went there to convalesce. It was universally unpopular, being bleak and damp and miles from anywhere. AWMM

Death

16 Aug 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Rossignol Wood Cemetery, Hebuterne, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM B.20 AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20804950
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/590565/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/590565
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  75: 19
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Information kindly provided by family
• HMNZT 97. (1918). From Maoriland to Blighty: Being the browsings of Brown’s cows: S.S. Tahiti, February 1918 (31st Reinforcements). Bennett Brothers, Military and General Printers.