FREITAS, Peter
| Service Number: | 14/191A |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Unspecified New Zealand Army Units |
| Born: | Guildford, Sydney, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Drowned, At sea (Irish Sea (RMS Leinster)), 10 October 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Grangegorman Military Cemetery Grangegorman, County Dublin, Ireland AWMM NZ RC 1 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Oct 1918: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 14/191A, Unspecified New Zealand Army Units |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Husband of Delia Christina Freitas, of Warwick House, 8, Bartley St., Sydney, New South Wales.
He is one of six Australian born soldiers of the Great War who perished in the sinking by torpedo from U-Boat of the RMS Leinster. The bodies of 5 were recovered.
The Royal Mail Ship "Leinster" was owned by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. Built by John Laird of Birkenhead in 1897, it was torpedoed in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of Thursday 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 100km [68 miles] from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.
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