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SAMS, Frank Douglas Home
(Service number )

Aliases	Douglas
First Rank		Last Rank	Second-Lieutenant

Birth

Date	24/02/1891	Place of Birth	Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Electrician
Previous Military Experience	Cadets at Timaru Main School
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Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	UK Armed Forces	Served in	Air Force
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship
Date
Transport
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With	Royal Flying Corps Special Reserve
Last Unit Served With	Royal Flying Corps, R.A.F.

Military Awards

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Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom	On German soil. By the Germans.
Actions Prior to Capture	Early in his service with the Royal Flying Corps (2nd flight?), his machine came down on German soil (possibly through injury or damage), and he was taken prisoner of war.
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Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Airman

Death

Date	10 April 1961	Age	70 yrs
Place of Death	Ashburn Hall, Dunedin
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Cremated & ashes interred at Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin
Memorial Reference	Block S 45, Plot 122
New Zealand Memorials	St Stephen's Anglican Church, Fairlie, Roll of Honour (Prisoner of War in Germany)

Biographical Notes

Second son of William Thomas & Annie Maria (nee HOME) SAMS, of Balmoral, Fairlie. Brothers Herbert William Home SAMS & William Montague Home SAMS also served in WWI. Educated at Lower Shotover & George Street Dunedin schools, then at Timaru Main (& TBHS?). Medically rejected in NZ for war service. In 1916 he gained the Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate. In 1916 he was accepted for the Royal Flying Corps & went into training at Oxford, England. Prisoner of War by October 1916, in Osnabruck, Hanover, Germany; still POW in March 1918. After liberation he worked for the R.A.F. in England, before returning to NZ. [See BIO.]

Sources

DCC - headstone image & burial record (Andersons Bay Cemetery) [28 February 2014]; Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin - plaque inscription & cremation record (South Canterbury Branch microfiche collection, NZSG Cemetery Records) [02 March 2014]; School admission records (NZSG Southland & Dunedin branches) [28 February 2014]; Star, 12 May 1906, Timaru Herald, 16 December 1904, 16 June 1916, 12, 22 & 26 September 1916, 12 October 1916, 20 December 1918, 23 April 1919, Oamaru Mail, 11 October 1916, Otago Daily Times, 25 & 28 September 1916, 19 June 1917, Evening Post, 28 April 1917, North Otago Times, 2 May 1917, Press, 11 June 1917, Ashburton Guardian, 30 June 1917, New Zealand Herald, 4 March 1918 (Papers Past) [28 February 2014]; ancestry.com.au [28 February 2014]; interactive ancestry.com.au(Certificate & photo, 1916; Medal Card) [01 & 02 March 2014].

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