Frederick Holmes
Born b. 1870
Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2025 - Military Record
- Died 1 Mar 1918 - Service number
- WWI 16/1226 AWMM
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Sergeant Major AWMM New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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About birth
- Birth
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- Date of birth
- b. 1870Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2025 - Military Record
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- Address before enlistment
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- Next of kin
- Mrs F. Ashley (aunt), C/o Mrs Hibbert, 1 Hornsby Rise Gardens, Crouch End, London, England AWMM
- Mrs F. Ashley (aunt), C/o Mrs Hibbert, 1 Hornsby Rise Gardens, Crouch End, London North, England AWMM
- & Dorothy MILLER of Kohatu Road, OtakiPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2025 - Military Record
- Relationship status
- SinglePublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 10 August 2025 - Military Record
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 16/1226 AWMM
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Military decorations
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Training and Enlistment
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Police Officer/Civilian AWMM
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 42 or HMNZT 43 or HMNZT 44 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua AWMM Sergeant Major AWMM Rarotongans, Attached B Company AWMM 3rd Maori Contingent AWMM - WW1 11 Oct 1916-28 Dec 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 67 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Sergeant Major AWMM 9th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM
- WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
Prisoner of war
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Medical history
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Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Sergeant Major AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- SuppNom: Ex 3rd Maori Contingent. AWMM
- Another of our members, Sergeant Major Frederick Holmes, died at the Auckland Hospital last week from heart disease. The funeral took place at Waikumete Cemetery on Monday, March 4. Deceased was accorded a military funeral, the firing party being from the N.Z.R.A. and the wharf guard. The Returned Soldiers' Association and the Defence Department were represented. Sergeant-Major Holmes served in the Imperial Forces for 23 years, most of the time in the Coldstream Guards. He had seen active service in the Boxer campaign in China, Boer War, and also saw service in India. He was, after his discharge from the Imperial Army, in charge of the police at Rarotonga, and came to New Zealand with the Niue Islanders. Sergeant-Major Holmes also saw service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Source: Observer (16 March 1918, p. 15).Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 9 June 2025 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47202584/frederick-holmes
About death
- Death
- 1 Mar 1918 AWMM
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- Cemetery
- Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Prot. Soldiers Area B, Row 1, Grave 49 AWMM
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- Obituary
- HOLMES.—On March 1. 1918, at the Auckland Hospital, Sergeaut-Major Frederick Holmes, late of N.Z.E.F. The deceased will be accorded a military funeral, leaving the premises of Watney Sibun, undertaker. Newmarket, at 2 p.m. on Monday, 4th inst., for Waikumete CemetaryPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 9 June 2025 - Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 53, 2 March 1918, Page 12
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Memorial
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Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18049253
Further Reference - New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130858.html
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643115/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643115
Further Reference - Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
Further Reference - Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- References
- Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
25: 3 - New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
43: 36 - Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
- HMNZT 67. Long Trail. (1916). On board ship:Published by the Right Wing of the 18th Reinforcements.
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