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Cenotaph record

Frederick Charles Bettjeman

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  • Service number
    WWI 6/1779 AWMM
  • Also known as
    • Frederick AWMM
    • Fred AWMM
    • Fredericke AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Portrait, 1914 (kindly provided by family) - No known copyright restrictions

Portrait, 1914 (kindly provided by family) - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Frederick Charles AWMM
  • Surname
    Bettjeman AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    • Frederick AWMM
    • Fred AWMM
    • Fredericke AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 6/1779 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    19 February 1884 AWMM Westport, Buller District AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Denniston, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    Farmer/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Catherine Bettjeman (mother), Adderley Street, Westport, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 17 April 1915 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
    WWI 6/1779 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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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
    Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
    Wounded Gallipoli, sent to Military Convalescent Hospital at Epsom, Surrey. AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of Katrina (Catherine) Adelina Wilhelmina Bettjemann and John Jurgan Henry Bettjemann.

    Husband of Agnes Muir nee McNab; known as Nancy. He remarried in 1966 Frances Winifred Chalklen nee Jacobs.

    Fred was wounded at Gallipoli and ended up in Epsom military hospital in England. There he met his wife to be, Agnes Macnab who was a nurse at the hospital.

    He farmed on the unsuccessful soldiers' settlement in the Mangaputua valley, Whanganui.

    Birth registered as Bettjemann. Nominal Roll spells name as Fredericke AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    5 January 1987 AWMM
    Age 102 AWMM
    Te Kuiti, Waikato AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Cemetery name
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  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

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Sources

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  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 53 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. 2: Includes portrait AWMM

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