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Frank Chilton

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Frank AWMM
  • Surname
    Chilton AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1892 AWMM Port Chalmers, Dunedin AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Dr Charles Chilton (father), Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    1915-1916 Gallipoli AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details

Prisoner of war

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

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Only child of Dr Charles Chilton, Professor of Biology at Canterbury University, Christchurch and Elizabeth Chilton.

    Educated at Waitaki Boys High School. When he enlisted he was studying Medicine (2nd year) at Edinburgh University.

    He was attached to 2 Battalion Hampshire Regiment AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    4 June 1915 AWMM
    Age 23 AWMM
    Dardanelles, Turkey AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
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  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Helles Memorial, Turkey AWMM

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Sources

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13 November 2021Ian Banks Taumarunui New ZealandResearcher

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