BYRNE, Francis
| Service Number: | 1632 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 60th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Steiglitz, Victoria, Australia, 23 February 1894 |
| Home Town: | Steiglitz, Golden Plains, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Stratford, Victoria, Australia, 4 March 1963, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Stratford Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Meredith State School No 1420 Roll of Honor, Steiglitz State School Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1632, 60th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 4 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1632, 60th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne | |
| 4 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1632, 60th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Dec 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1632, 60th Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles on board SS Princess Victoria | |
| 5 Dec 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1632, 60th Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles on board SS Princess Victoria | |
| 12 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1632, 60th Infantry Battalion, WiA France; GSW; evacuated to hospital in England | |
| 15 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1632, 58th Infantry Battalion, embarked Devonport for Melbourne on board HT Orontes | |
| 14 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1632, 60th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Francis Byrne (Service No:1632) enlisted in the AIF on 26 January 1916, and was attached to 58th Infantry Battalion on 4 May 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Suez on board HMAT A17 Port Lincoln. Private Byrne was hospitalised in Abassia for Measles, and embarked from Alexandria for Marseille on 5 December 1916 on board SS Princess Victoria. WiA in France (GSW) on 12 May 1917, Private Byrne was evacuated to hospital in England. On 25 June 1917, his mother wrote to the Army requesting information about her son - 'I am very concerned and wretched concerning him, as he is reported as having died from wounds. The report appeared in the Ballarat Echo last evening Monday 25th June' (NAA). On 15 May 1919, Private Byrne embarked from Devonport for Melbourne on board HT Orontes, and was attached to 60th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 14 August 1919. Sons Thomas and Kevin served in WWII.
Born in Steiglitz via Meredith, Victoria in 1894, Frank was the second of seven children of Thomas Byrne (b1862 at Long Gully via Steiglitz, Victoria) and Susan Anastasia Byrne (b1871 in Meredith, Victoria). Thomas (a Labourer) and Susan married in 1892 in Steiglitz, where they settled and raised their family and Thomas was a Labourer.
Frank worked as a Labourer in Steiglitz before enlisting in the Army. Following his Discharge, he joined the Railways (VGR) and was working at Baddainnie Railway Station via Benalla in 1923 when he married Alice Louisa Brown (b1901 in Stratford, Victoria). Frank was a Railway Employee all his life - he and Alice lived in Baddaginnie, Violet Town and Linton before settling in Stratford in the 1950s. Frank died in 1963 and Alice in 1990.
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