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Percy Thomas Fromm

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  • Service number
    WWI 16/1403 AWMM
  • Also known as
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • NZ Rifle Brigade & 4th NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Records
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Percy Thomas AWMM
  • Surname
    Fromm AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1403 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion
    Church of England Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1 November 1892 Public Source
  • Date of birth
    1 Nov 1892 (also given as 1 Nov 1891) Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Place of birth
    • NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record
    • Inglewood, Taranaki, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military record
  • Birth notes
    son of Alfred Anton & Sophia Alice FROMM Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record & Research
  • Address before enlistment
    Cheesman Road, Kaiti, Gisborne Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Post war occupation
    • Farmer at Nimosa Downs, Walton, Waikato Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record
    • Linotyper in Wellington Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Death Record
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    A.A. Fromm (father), Peel Street, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    single
    1929 married Ruth Hazel WILD Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record & Research

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Egyptian EF & Western European Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Records
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • NZ Rifle Brigade & 4th NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Records
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1403 AWMM
  • Military service
    1915-1919, 1924-1930: NZ Territorials Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Records
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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    • WW1 Unknown AWMM Linotype operator/Civilian AWMM
    • 25 June 1915 at Gisborne
      10 Oct 1915 at Trentham
      12 Oct 1915 at Inglewood Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment
    23yrs 7mths Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    2nd Lieutenant Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Military Record

Biographical information

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Death

About death

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  • Death
    11 December 1937 Public Source
  • Date of death
    11 December 1937 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Age at death
    46yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Place of death
    Wellington, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Cause of death
    Cancer Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
    Karori Cemetery Welllington Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Grave reference
    Section: Soldiers; Plot: 12 OO; Record Number: 89551 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 27 March 2016 - Wellington Cemetery Records
  • Obituary
    MR. P. T. FROMM
    The death occurred last evening of Mr. Percy Thomas Fromm, a member of the "Evening Post" composing department, and a former representative footballer:

    Mr. Fromm was prominent in football circles for many years, representing Poverty Bay before the war, later playing representative games while living .at Gisborne and North Whangarei. During the war he played for the Maori1 Pioneer Battalion, and also played for ,the 0.T.C.. while stationed at Cambridge. He was engaged in representative rowing at Whangarei and Gisborne. His war service was distinguished, and at the conclusion of hostilities he had risen to the rank of Second Lieutenant. With the exception of several years spent farming in the Waikato after the war, Mr. Fromm had been connected with the printing side of newspapers since he left school. He was first employed in this capacity on the "Poverty Bay Herald," and later on the "Gisborne Times," j "Northern Advocate," and other North Island papers before coming to Wellington to join the "Evening Post" staff eight or nine years ago.
    Mr. Fromm, who was 46 at the time of his death, is survived by his wife and two daughters Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 December 2023 - OBITUARY
    EVENING POST, VOLUME CXXIV, ISSUE 143, 14 DECEMBER 1937, PAGE 13
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Memorials

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14 December 2023Lorraine Mona Gisborne Researcher
27 March 2016Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher

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