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BOYCE, Frederick
(Service number 8/906 (Archway has 81906))

Aliases	Fred
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	6 March 1881	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	381 Moorhouse avenue, Christchurch
Occupation	Platelayer
Previous Military Experience	10th Contingent SA
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	J. H. BOYCE (brother), 27 Mayfair Street, Lower Riccarton
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers, Dunedin	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry

Military Awards

Campaigns
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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

Gunshot wound to left arm.

Post-war Occupations

Railway worker

Death

Date	8 February 1965	Age	83 years
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Frederick Boyce was the third son of Frederick and Mary Elizabeth (née Shears) Boyce, although the first-born son died in infancy. Born on 6 March 1881 at Timaru, Frederick was baptised as Frederick William Thomas Boyce, three weerks later, on 27 March, at St Mary’s Anglican Church, Timaru. Along with his siblings he was educated variously at Timaru South School and Timaru Main School. In late 1893 the family moved to Cheviot where Frederick, senior, died in 1899.

Frederick Boyce, junior, had served in the South African War. He enlisted early in the war and nominated his brother, Joseph Henry Boyce, as next-of-kin. He suffered a gunshot wound to his left arm, suffering permanent disability. Having returned home, he married Hilda Thorne in 1916. His brother, Samuel Frederick Boyce, enlisted also.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum cenotaph Database [15 July 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [15 July 2020]; School Admission records (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [15 July 2020]; St Mary’s Timaru baptism record (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [16 July 2020]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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