CHIENE, Francis Scott
| Service Number: | 2962 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 12 April 1889 |
| Home Town: | Kensington, Randwick, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Forest Lodge Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in action, Dernancourt, France, 5 April 1918, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2962, 1st Pioneer Battalion | |
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| 17 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2962, 1st Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2962, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 13 Oct 1917: | Wounded Shell wound to the head | |
| 5 Apr 1918: | Involvement Private, 2962, 45th Infantry Battalion , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2962 awm_unit: 45 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-04-05 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Francis Scott Chiene, was the youngest surviving son of George Scott and Elizabeth Chiene of Kogarah, late of Kensington, New South Wales. He was known as ‘Scott’ to his family and friends. He enlisted during February 1916 and was wounded in the head on 13 October 1917 during the heavy fighting at Passchendaele, Belgium. He died at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918, when the 45th Battalion took part in a counter attack against German forces that had partially broken through the Australian front line.
His father was an officer In the British Royal Artillery, and his grandfather, Major Chiene, belonged to the 31th Bengal Native Infantry, and was in India during the Sikh War. His uncle, Walter G. Chiene, was engineer-in-chief to the Soudan Field Force with Hicks Pasha's ill-fated expedition that was annihilated at Kashgill. Scott’s oldest brother, Driver Broughton Chiene 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance served over two years In Egypt and Gallipoli, and died in Newcastle on 4 November 1917, officially by suicide.