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George August Fromm

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Nominal Roll 25 , Page: 3 - No known copyright restrictions

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    George August AWMM
  • Surname
    Fromm AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 16/1309 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
    b. 1893 Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 December 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records
  • Place of birth
    Inglewood Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 December 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records
  • Birth notes
    Son of Alfred Antonie & Sophia Alice FROMM Public - 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
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • A.A. Fromm (father), Cheesemen Road, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
    • Alfred Antoine Fromm (father), Cheeseman Road, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
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Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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    • Manuka then transhipped to "Malwa" at Sydney for Suez 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
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Death

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Memorials

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Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R16784202
    Further Reference
  • 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. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      25: 3 AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      44: 1 AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
    • Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
      Vol. 4: Includes portrait AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM

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14 December 2023Lorraine Mona Gisborne Researcher

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