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GRILLS, Frank Alfred
(Service number 3/1512)

Aliases
First Rank Private Last Rank Private

Birth

Date 13 Sept 1888 Place of Birth Westbury, Tasmania

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment C/- TJ Johnston, Albury
Occupation Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mrs A Grills, (mother) Westbury, Tasmania, Australia
Religion Agnostic/COE
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation NZ Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 9th Reinforcements, NZ Medical Corps, Field Ambulance
Date 8 January 1916
Transport HMNZT 37, Maunganui
Embarked From Wellington Destination Suez
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With NZ Medical Corps

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 25 August 1918 Age 30
Place of Death Bapaume,France
Cause KIA
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension
Memorial Reference IV.V.9
New Zealand Memorials On Memorial wall, Timaru ; Albury War Memorial (as F Grills); Fairlie War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of William and Anne Grills, Westbury, Tasmania

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