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WILCOX, Frederick Leopold
(Service number 39380)

Aliases Mostly used WILCOX spelling of name.. Death registered as WILLCOCKS
First Rank Trooper Last Rank Trooper

Birth

Date 04/02/1892 Place of Birth Geraldine

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Temuka
Occupation Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin Mrs Emily Florence WILCOX (mother), Milburn, Otago; (Goodwood, via Palmerston, Otago); later Box 48, Mataura, Southland
Religion Church of England
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 40th Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles Brigade
Date 11 October 1918
Transport Moeraki
Embarked From Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Canterbury Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns
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

Labourer

Death

Date 4 October 1937 Age 46 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch
Memorial Reference Block 2E RSA, Plot 15
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Frederick Leopold Willcocks was the second son of New Zealand born George Wilcock (name at marriage) and his wife, Welsh-born Emily Florence née Davis, George and Emily having married in 1888 at Geraldine. Year of birth for Frederick is estimated. Frederick was educated at St Andrews and Springbrook schools, and likely others. F. L. Wilcox left New Zealand on the Moeraki and transhipped to Malta at Sydney for Suez. Federick's brother George Hedley Wilcocks also served in World War I.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [10 February 2018]; NZ Death Index (Department of Internal Affairs) [10 February 2018]; School Admission records (Waimate Branch NZSG) [10 February 2018]; Bromley Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [10 February 2018]; NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [12 February 2018]

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Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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