Frank Elliot Hobson

Forenames

Frank Elliot AWMM

Surname

Hobson AWMM

Also known as

Frank Ehot Hobson AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/727 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

25 Nov 1886 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Dunoca, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

G. Hobson, Ngarua, Kairuru, Motueka, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Dec 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/727 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 13 or HMNZT 14 or HMNZT 15 AWMM Vessel was Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter AWMM Trooper AWMM Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM 2nd Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Trooper AWMM
Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM

Death

31 May 1915 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey AWMM
• Ngatimoti War Memorial, Tasman District, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18048513
  Further Reference
• Ngatimoti War memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/ngatimoti-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/720199/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/720199
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference

References

• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 333
• 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
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.