MOOREHEAD, Frank McCrae
| Service Number: | 691 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1914, An original of F Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Mildura, Mildura Shire, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Scotch College, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Orchadist |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25 April 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Artillery Road Plot 19 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 691, 8th Infantry Battalion, An original of F Company | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 691, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 691, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Wounded ANZAC / Gallipoli, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/74816416 The Mildura Cultivator (Vic.) Wed 4 Aug 1915 Letter from the Trenches. ''Extract'' (Killed) Stanley A. Round, who enlisted in Mildura last August, to hisparents at Fawkner Mansions, South Yarra. Stan. is still in the fighting line:— Gallipoli, 21st May, 1915. Since our company landed here on the first day 25th April) it has been a very tough job, but I think the worst of it is now over. I hear that 6 Mildura boys have been killed and a good many wounded. Poor Frank Moorehead was shot during that charge up the hill on the first day. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Frank Moorehead was born on 3 September 1890 at Hawthorn. He attended Scotch College from 1904 to 1905. He was in Cadets. He also made a name for himself as good shot in the Rifle Club.
Frank was an orchardist at Mildura when he enlisted on 19 August 1914 at Broadmeadows, Victoria. Frank died on 25 April 1915 at Gallipoli. He was 24 years of age. No record of how he died but he was buried in Artillery Road East Cemetery. This small cemetery, near "Artillery Road," which led up from Shell Green to Brown's Dip, contained about 20 graves which were reinterred in Shell Green Cemetery during 1923.
Moorehead was an uncle of the Scotch Old Collegian, war correspondent and author Alan Moorehead, for whom visiting Frank’s grave at Shell Green Cemetery was ‘a moment of truth’ in the writing of Alan’s important book on the campaign.
Frank’s brother, 745 Lance Corporal Harold P Moorehead, 22nd Battalion AIF, lost a leg and an arm at Gallipoli.
Frank’s headstone is inscribed with the words: ‘He did his share’. and located in the Shell Green Cemetery (Artillery Road Plot 19), Gallipoli, Turkey.
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