Trooper Edwin Frank Daniel was born in Papanui on 20 February 1891. His parents were members of the local Presbyterian Church, but at some stage moved down to a farm called "Kipilow" at Kingsdown, just south of Timaru. Frank Daniel enlisted in Timaru in the South Canterbury troop of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles in August 1914. After training in Christchurch, he sailed with the main Body to Egypt, where he spent time training there until the Mounted Rifles (without their horses) were called to Gallipoli early in May 1915.
Frank Daniel served at Gallipoli until the ill-fated attack by the Canterbury Mounted Rifles on Hill 60 on 22 August 1915. He was one of the many men from the Canterbury Mounted Rifles were were killed on futile daylight frontal assaults against entrenched Turkish positions. He is commemorated on the Hill 60 (New Zealand) memorial, and on a plaque in St Giles' Presbyterian Church on Papanui Road (see below).
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