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Norman Douglas Fraser

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Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917 - No known copyright restrictions

Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Norman Douglas AWMM
  • Surname
    Fraser AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 9/407 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    28 March 1890 AWMM Wyndham, Southland AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 21 August 1914 AWMM Gimmerburn, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    William R.F. Fraser (father), Manager, Bank of New Zealand, Mosgiel, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 16 October 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    1914-1919 Western Front AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 9/407 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

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
  • 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
      On 12 August 1915 Norman Fraser was wounded in action and transferred per H.S. Andania to Fulham Military Hospital in London. He was pronounced fit to return to active service on 12 October that same year. (Church, p.48) AWMM
    • Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
      Abdominal tuberculosis AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • "Norman Fraser was posted to the New Zealand Field Artillery as a Gunner on 4 May, and went to Codford on 28 August, following its establishment in June as the Command Depot. He left for France on 24 September and marched into the base camp at Etaples. His army records indicate that he never reached the Western Front because he fell ill on 10 October suffering from influenza. A week later he was admitted to an isolation block with suspected paratyphoid and remained there for three months before arriving at No.1 NZGH, Brockenhurst on 14 January 1917." (Church, p.48)

    Norman Fraser received basic military training in New Zealand and further training prior to embarkation for the Dardanelles on 12 April 1915.

    Family Grave memorial, Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, on his parents' grave AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    27 January 1917 AWMM
    Age 26 AWMM
    Brockenhurst, Hampshire AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Disease AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Brockenhurst (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Hampshire, England AWMM Plot A, Row 3, Grave 7 AWMM
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  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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    • War Memorial Gates, Gimmerburn cemetery AWMM
    • Invercargill Cenotaph, Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Family grave memorial, Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin AWMM
    • Waitaki Boys High School, Oamaru, North Otago Public - SHONA - Researcher - 27 August 2018 - WBHS Memorial

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Church, C. (2002). New Zealand graves at Brockenhurst : 93 New Zealand soldiers remembered from World War One. Hampshire, England: Author. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Page No: 246 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. 3: Includes portrait 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. 5: Includes portrait AWMM

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07 May 2020AllanRotoruaResearcher
03 December 2018JulianaAuckland, New ZealandResearcher
27 August 2018SHONAOamaruResearcher

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