When Lenice Pearl Jamieson was born on 26 December 1913, in Thames, Thames-Coromandel, New Zealand, her father, Edward Jamieson, was 31 and her mother, Emily Storey Goodwin, was 25. She married Harold Aitken Frisken on 15 July 1936, in Auckland, New Zealand. She died on 2 February 1972, in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 58, and was buried in Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.
The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations.
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
Scottish: variant of Jamison . It probably originated in the pronunciation of James as Jamis, but the Scottish preference for this form of Jamison will have been reinforced by association with Jamie, the Scots pet form of James .
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