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FRASER, Gordon
(Service number 8//1238)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	25/09/1894	Place of Birth	Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	39 Scott Street, Sydenham, New Zealand
Occupation	Tanner for Bowan Bros, Woolston
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Charlton Simon Fraser (Father), Manager Alliance Assurance, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	2nd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	14 December 1914
Transport	Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915-16, Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916, Mudros (Lemnos) 1915, Western Europe 1917-18
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

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Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Two siblings also served: Douglas Playfair and Geoffrey Erle Fraser, but Douglas was killed in action and Geoffrey died of his wounds.

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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