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3rd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, New Zealand Expeditionary Force
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Rflmn Thomas Anderson 3rd NZ Rifle Brigade (d.26th August 1918) Thomas Anderson was the son of Thomas and Mary Anderson, of Poolburn, Otago Central, New Zealand.
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Rflmn. Thomas Collins 3rd Reserve Btn. New Zealand Rifle Brigade (d.27th December 1917) Rifleman Collins is buried in the Dolla Old Graveyard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
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L/Cpl. Charles Ambrose "Charlie" Klink C Coy. 3rd NZ Rifle Brigade. (d.27th Mar 1918) Charles Klink was my great grand uncle. He never married and he died at the during Operation Michael at the Somme.
I am still piecing together his history. His father was German, his mother English. He served with the 3rd NZ Rifle Brigade, C Company and E Company.
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Capt. Samuel Frickleton VC. 3rd Battalion New Zealand Rifle Brigade Samuel Frickleton was born in Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He immigrated to New Zealand in 1908, and worked as a coal-miner in Blackball in the South Island
At the onset of the First World War, Frickleton and his four brothers joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and all fought at Gallipoli in 1915. After the battle, Frickleton was invalided home from Gallipoli and subsequently discharged as medically unfit for active service. Having recovered, he re-enlisted in 1916, and was posted to France as a lance-corporal in the 3rd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade.
He was awarded a Victoria Cross of his action on 7th of June 1917 at Messines, Belgium. The citation notes that "although slightly wounded, Lance Corporal Frickleton dashed forward at the head of his section, rushed through a barrage and personally destroyed with bombs an enemy machine gun and crew, which were causing heavy casualties. He then attacked the second gun, killing the whole of the crew of twelve. By the destruction of these two guns he undoubtedly saved his own and other units from very severe casualties and his magnificent courage and gallantry ensured the capture of the objective."
Frickleton was severely wounded later in the war, and was evacuated to England. After the war, he remained in the Army.
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Rfm. David Muir 2nd Bn. 3rd NZ Rifle Brigade. (d.12th Oct 1917) David Muir was my grandmother's younger brother. I have the telegram sent by the Minister of Defence, and the letter from the Governor-General, to his parents on the 8th of May 1918. I have a photo of David Muir and his older brother, John, who went to the Boer War and died 2 years later of Tb. A tragedy for the parents who had settled in 1870 after migrating from Orkney.
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New Zealand and the Great War: A Photographic Record of New Zealanders at War 1914-1918 Glyn Harper
They shall not grow old...In 1914, despite being forbidden, many a Kiwi soldier's kitbag included a portable camera, known as 'The Soldiers' Kodak'. In a major research project, Glyn Harper and the Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum have combined official war photographs with more informal images to produce a moving visual history. While primarily drawn from the Museum's collection, many photographs from private sources have been included. From more than 25,000 photographs, just over 800 have been selected - most of which have never been published. Chosen to depict each theatre of the 1914-18 war, including Gallipoli, Sinai-Palestine and the Western Front, poignant images from the home front are also included, along with graphic portraits of wounded soldiers, whose treatment marked the beginnings of modern plastic surgery. Despite the First World War being described as the most important and far-reaching political and military event of the twentieth century, pivotal in forging our
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