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Name Samuel Frickleton No. 6/2133
VC Issue No. 837 Awards VC
Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 3rd New Zealand (Rifle) Brigade, 3rd Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lance-Corporal
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Place Of Death Hutt Hospital, Naenae, near Wellington, New Zealand
Buried/Location Ashes Taita Servicemen's Cemetery, Naenae, near Wellington, New Zealand
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot 1188
Gazetted 2 August 1917
VC Presented 18 September 1917 by King George V at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Memorials
Headstone, Taita Servicemen's Cemetery, Naenae, near Wellington, New Zealand
Memorial at Returned Servicemen's Association HQ, Dunedin, New Zealand
Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Memorial Cairns, Memorial Garden, Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Name on Memorial Sundial, Caroline Bay, Timaru, New Zealand
Frickleton Street, Taradale, Napier, New Zealand
P Memorial Plaque outside Church, Messines, Messines Ridge, Belguim
By The Way…
His Victoria Cross was presented to the Museum in November 1977 by his widow, Valeska
VC Held By
Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum, Waiouru, New Zealand
BORN 1 April 1891
DIED 6 September 1971 AGE 80
VC Won 7 June 1917 AGE 26
Place VC Won Messines, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1917
