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GILLARD, Frederick
(Service number 13/60)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	8 September 1891	Place of Birth	East Tamaki, Auckland

Enlistment Information

Date	14 August 1914	Age
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation	Farmer for Horgan Bros
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Tom Gillard, East Tamaki, Auckland; later listed as Howick
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Auckland Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Star of India or Waimana
Embarked From	Auckland	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915, Balkans (Gallipoli) 1915
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	8 August 1915	Age	24
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Memorial Reference	Panel 1
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Frederick was the son of Mrs M.H. Gillard of Howick, Auckland

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015); Military personnel file via Archives New Zealand (February 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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