Service Details
Name:
 GERDS
Given Name:
 FREDERICK NIVEN
Initials:
 F N
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Engineers
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Unit:
 176th Tunnelling Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1915-06-01
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Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of Ada A. Gerds, of Four Winds, South Benfleet, Essex, and the late F. W. Gerds. Educated at Repton School. Associate of the Royal School of Mines. Associate Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Manager of the Radnor Mine, South Rhodesia. Employed by the London and Rhodesia Mining and Land Company from 1910, as Surveyor and Assayer, Cam and Motor Mine. Resigned to join the Forces. Commissioned May, 1915. Previous service in Rhodesian Volunteer Force. Born in South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 ST. VAAST POST MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE
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Grave Reference:
 I. E. 8.

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