SUTTON Frederick John

7 years service, Royal Navy

1 year service, US Navy

Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles

2/2566A Gunner, New Zealand Field Artillery, WW1

8139 Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand

CITATION

Military Medal

Gaztted 9 December 1916, p12058, Rec No 100

At High Wood on 16th September. As assistant to the Forward Observation Officer he went into Switch Trench at 7am and spent the entire day keeping the line intact in that area and carrying messages to the visual signalling station behind Crest Trench. This area was under extremely heavy fire all day, and the work carried out by him was especially praiseworthy.

AWARDS

Military Medal

1914-15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

NOTES

Born 29 August 1872 Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England

Died 3 June 1951 Rotorua, New Zealand

Buried Rotorua Cemetery [6-RSA-043]