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Frederick Charles Trenue - Letter to 'Gill' [Henry Gibbons Gillespie], dated 12 January 1916
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Date
1916
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Subject Notes
13/747 Sergeant Frederick Charles Trenue first served with the Auckland Mounted Rifles, 1NZEF, at Gallipoli, where he was slightly wounded several times and later evacuated suffering from dysentery followed by enteric fever. After recovering he appears to have been briefly posted to the NZ Medical Corps before his final posting with the Auckland Infantry Regiment. Trenue served a total of 5 years and 165 days before being finally discharged in April 1920, on account of illness contracted whilst on active service. On his return to New Zealand he was employed as a carpenter at the Hicks Bay freezing works. He was drowned whilst fishing off rocks near Matakaoa Point, Hicks Bay, on Sunday, 31 October 1920. It was unclear if his body was ever recovered. [Source: 'Poverty Bay Herald', Vol. XLVII, No. 15,360, 3 November 1920, Page 3]
Frederick Trenue, who was also known as Johann Friedrich Carl Zeunert (Trenue spelt backwards, minus the letter 'z'), was of German descent and was born on 11 January 1881, at Greenock, South Australia, though he claimed on his NZ Expeditionary Force attestation papers to have been born on 11 January 1882, at Christchurch, New Zealand. His parents were Johann Gottlieb Zeunert and Anna Lydia Otto.
Credit Line
Donated by Mrs E.R. [Edith Ray] Harding (daughter of Henry Gibbons Gillespie) in 1986.
Last Update
07 Dec 2023
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