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COMER, Frederick William
(Service number 6/2899)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank

Birth

Date	*1893	Place of Birth	NZ

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Post Office, Timaru
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Richard Bevan COMER (father), Temuka
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	7th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

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

13 October 1917 admitted to hospital in France, suffering from gunshot wound in thigh - severe case.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	4 April 1968	Age	75 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Salisbury Park Crematoriu, Timaru
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Frederick William Comer was the elder son of Richard Bevan and Louisa (née Gibbs) Comer.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [26 February 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [26 February 2017]; Timaru Herald, 1 November 1917 (Papers Past) [26 February 2017]

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