Franklin Garfield Fruin

Forenames

Franklin Garfield AWMM

Surname

Fruin AWMM

Service number

WWI 25/178 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

11 Oct 1887 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Post war occupation

Railway employee AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs G. Hone (sister), Waiuku, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 05 Feb 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 25/178 AWMM

Military service

New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Military Medal (MM) AWMM
  MM. London Gazette 11 February 1919, p2144, Rec No 2523. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near Gouzeaucourt. In the attack on September 9th, 1918, he organised a Bombing Party and worked along African Support Trench, capturing two machine guns and 16 prisoners, besides inflicting severe casualties on the enemy. To ascertain the strength of the garrison in African Trench he himself led another Bombing Party and worked up the Trench. He again inflicted casualties on the enemy, but was forced to retire owing to superior numbers. He,however, established a block in the trench thus preventing the enemy from rushing our garrison. He subsequently led another party and established a block in African Support. In the attack on September 12th, this N.C.O. acted as first bayonet man. This duty he performed very ably until badly wounded by an enemy bomb. his example was a gerat incentive to many new men in his Platoon. AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 12 Oct 1915 Military Personnel file
Age  27 AWMM
Labourer/Civilian Military Personnel file

Embarkation details

WW1 05 Feb 1916-12 Mar 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 42 AWMM Rifleman AWMM 3rd Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 10 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  12 stone AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Gray AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

• Franklin Garfield Fruin was the elder twin to Francis Lincoln Fruin who also served in World War 1
  
  CWGC records age at death as 29
  
  Next of Kin: Mr E. J. Fruin, Waiuku, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM
• Information on their lives is in a booklet at Auckland War Memorial Museum titled Fruin Twins
  Public - Joy Elizabeth - Other relative - 20 May 2016 - Military Personnel File and family history internet military research in Australia and NZ, also Papers Past.

Death

16 Sept 1918 AWMM
Age  31 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM Grave 3F Plot 3 AWMM

Memorial name

• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM
• Waiuku War Memorial Hall, Queen Street Waiuku 2123 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Waiuku War Memorial, George Street, Waiuku AWMM
• Waiuku War Memorial, George Street, Waiuku AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16784255
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/4025383/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4025383
  Further Reference

References

• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• Carter, J. (Ed.). (2005). Fruin Twins: Franklin Garfield, Francis Lincoln. Unpublished.
• HMNZT 42. The blast : the magazine of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. (1917). London: John Long Ltd. ; [On board ship] : [H.M.N.Z.T. No. 42, Ulimaroa]
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  24: 7
• 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
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.