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FRASER, Gordon
(Service number 8//1238)

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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 Simon Fraser (Father), Leith St., Sydenham, Christchurch
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

Date 19 May 1985 Age 90
Place of Death Everil Orr Retirement Homes, Mt Albert, Auckland
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Ashes scattered at Waikumete Cemetery & Crematorium Glen Eden, Auckland
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

W Rowland also commengted that Gordon also served in the second World War as "#12751 Sergeant, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd Embarkation."

Sources

Auckland War memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (January 2015); SCRoll web submission by W Rowland, 15 June 2026; (NZBDM death record # 1985/36622

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Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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