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FRIDD, Albert
(Service number 6/3323)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Sergt

Birth

Date	27/12/1894	Place of Birth	Duntroon, North Otago

Enlistment Information

Date	25 August 1915	Age	20 yrs 8 mths
Address at Enlistment	Kingsdown
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience	2nd Regiment South Canterbury
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mr G. FRIDD (father), Russell Square, Timaru
Religion	Nonconformist
Medical Information	To re-do

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	8th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	13 November 1915
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Cant Regt

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
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	28 April 1920	Reason	No longer fit for War Service on account of wounds received in Action.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

8 Oct 1918 wounded; 10 Oct 1918 admitted to hospital.

Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date	2 March 1966	Age	71 yrs
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 126, Plot 13
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of George FRIDD, Russell Sq, Timaru [as at enlistment]. Albert and his brother Peter were named at the Kingsdown School's picnic and prize day in December, since they had enlisted from Kingsdown. Mr Craigie, M.P. referred to the Great War as "the most momentous war of all history" and noted that Kingsdown, in proportion to its population, had nobly done its share in sending men. When discharged in 1920, at Military Hospital, Timaru. Brother of John FRIDD, who was wounded, & Peter FRIDD, who was killed in action. At the Kingsdown School picnic in late December 1917, the Mayor read a list of names of those who had been educated at other schools but enlisted from Kingsdown, among them Albert Fridd, still on active service in France.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [04 September 2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5539 0042568) [05 September 2013]; TDC Headstone image [05 September 2013]; NZ BDM historical records; Newspaper, 12 Apr 1919 (PapersPast) [08 September 2013]; Google search [08 September 2013]; ancestry.co.au [08 September 2013]; family contacts. [See Bio]; Timaru Herald, 30 December 1915, 28 December 1917 (Papers Past) [11 July 2014; 11 September 2014]

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