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FRIEL, Francis Hugh
(Service number 29161)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Butcher
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs C. FRIEL (mother), Pleasant Point
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	18th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	11 October 1916
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Military Awards

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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

Butcher

Death

Date	23 August 1969	Age	75 yrs
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Pleasant Point Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 18, Plot 284
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Daniel & Catherine FRIEL, of Pleasant Point. Brother Edward died of wounds in WWI. Brother Michael Joseph also served in WWI.Francis returned to New Zealand in May 1919 by the troopship Arawa. Married Honorah Hilda (Norah) BREEN in 1923.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [08 October 2013]; Timaru Herald 1 May 1919 (Papers Past) [02 May 2014]

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