Service records online

Most of the South African War service records for soldiers in this database have now been digitised and are available by searching the Archives New Zealand Archway website.

Surname: 
swanwick
Reg No: 
1011
Given Names: 
f
Contingent: 
fourth
Unit: 
No 9 company
Rank: 
private
County/City: 
tuapeka
Occupation: 
carter
Ship: 
Monowai 20 March 1900
Address: 
wetherstones
Next of Kin: 
swanwick mrs jane
Next of Kin Address: 
same
Notes: 

See Frank Swanwick's service record (Archway).

An extract from one of his letters appears here

Community contributions


Janice Swanwick
27 Jun 2012
This is my grandfather, who died in Levin around 1960. His Christian name is Frank.
My great grandmother was a Mrs, decidedly not a Ms. He was also working on a gold dredge not long before his departure.
There is more information about him on the kete horowhenua website, in his letters home published in the Tuapeka Times and in his letters or copies of his letters with Archives New Zealand. He was in a contingent known as the Rough Riders.

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