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FIELDING, Frederick
(Service number )

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	13/09/1895	Place of Birth	Pleasant Point

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Engine cleaner (NZ Railways)
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Mary Fielding (mother), 18 Dee Street, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	18th Reinforcements, Canterbry Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date	1 October 1916
Transport	HMNZT 67 Tofua
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	British War Medal, Victory Medal
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	21 July 1919	Reason	Termination of period of engagement

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	22 April 1971	Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Cremated at Bromley, Christchurch
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of Mary and Frederick Fielding.

Frederick's brothers Walter Charles and George Alfred Fielding also served in the war.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [17 August 2018]; SCRoll web submission by R Evans, 12 August 2018

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin, South Canterbury Museum

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