George August Fromm
Born 1893 - Died 12 Dec 1948
- Service number
- WWI 16/1309 AWMM
- Also known as
- George August Bartholomew Fromm AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
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- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- George August AWMM
- Surname
- Fromm AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
- George August Bartholomew Fromm AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 16/1309 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 1893 AWMM
- Date of birth
- b. 1893Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 December 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records
- Place of birth
- InglewoodPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 December 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records
- Birth notes
- Son of Alfred Antonie & Sophia Alice FROMMPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 December 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records
- Address before enlistment
- Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM
- Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- A.A. Fromm (father), Cheesemen Road, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
- Alfred Antoine Fromm (father), Cheeseman Road, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 05 Feb 1916 AWMM Unknown Marital Status AWMM
- Pre 16 Nov 1916 AWMM Unknown Marital Status AWMM
- 1926 George m. Elsie Olga Ada ROSSPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 December 2023 - NZ BDM Marriage Records
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 16/1309 AWMM
- Military service
- Pioneer Battalion: Rarotongan Contingent, attached Company B AWMM
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
- British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
- Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
London Gazette 16 January 1918, p937 "For distinguished service in connection with military operations under General Sir Edmund Allenby, GCMG, KCB, Commander-in-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force" AWMM
Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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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 Second Lieutenant AWMM Rarotongans, Attached B Company AWMM 3rd Maori Contingent AWMM - WW1 16 Nov 1916-24 Jan 1917 AWMM
Manuka 16 November 1916 AWMM Vessel was Manuka AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM Maori Contingent, 11th Maori Reinforcements, 2nd Rarotongan Contingent AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM
- WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
Prisoner of war
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history
- Medical notes
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Last known rank
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Biographical information
- Manuka then transhipped to "Malwa" at Sydney for Suez.
SuppNom: Ex 3rd Maori Contingent.
March 1897 he and brother William worked as surgeons on a ship in the Pacific Islands and then became medical officers in the Cook Islands.
George was elected to the Cook Islands parliament in 1898 as member for Atiu and Mitiaro, Cook Islands. AWMM - DEATH AT WALTON: MR. GEO. A. FROMM
Advice was received in Gisborne yesterday of the sudden death at Walton, in the Waikato, of Mr. George A. Fromm, third son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Fromm, and formerly well known in Gisborne.
He was born at Inglewood and came to Gisborne with his parents in 1903 completing his education here and later taking up commercial employment in Gisborne. He was a prominent member of rowing and Rugby football circles and took a keen interest in voluntary training in the days prior to the introduction of the territorial system throughout New Zealand. Among the earliest volunteers for overseas service with the first N.Z.E.F., Mr. Fromm served throughout the First World War and in 1919 he took up a sheepfarming property in the Waikato in partnership with his brother, the late Mr. Percy Fromm. The latter retired from the partnership later and returned to newspaper work, in which he was engaged at the time of his death some years ago in Wellington. Mr. George Fromm carried on with his farming venture and achieved a solid success, becoming a prominent settler and taking part in ex-servicemen's organisations and in most of the public activities centring on Walton. He married Miss Elsie Ross, a member of an Auckland family, who survives him with her two sons, Messrs. George and Donald Fromm. Two sisters of the late Mr. Fromm also survive, they being Mesdames F. James and F. Hayward, both resident in the Waikato.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 December 2023 - GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXV, ISSUE 22819, 14 DECEMBER 1948, PAGE 7
- Manuka then transhipped to "Malwa" at Sydney for Suez.
About death
- Death
- 12 Dec 1948 NZ1948/23077
- Date of death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
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- Death notes
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- Cemetery
- Piako Cemetery, Morrinsville, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
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Memorial
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Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16784202
Further Reference - Cook Islands Online Cenotaph
https://www.cookislandsonlinecenotaph.com/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- 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.
- 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.
44: 1 - Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
- 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 - Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
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