TRIGG, Frances
| Service Number: | VFX92027 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 May 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General Hospitals - WW2 |
| Born: | Colac, Victoria, Australia, 13 March 1922 |
| Home Town: | Colac, Colac-Otway, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Waitress |
| Died: | Portland, Victoria, Australia, 22 October 1999, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Portland South Cemetery, Victoria, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 11 May 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VFX92027, General Hospitals - WW2 | |
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| 22 Oct 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VFX92027, General Hospitals - WW2 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Frances Trigg (Service No:VFX92027) served with the Australian Army Medical Womens' Service (AAMWS) from 11 May 1943 to 22 October 1947. Private Trigg was attached to Australian Camp Hospitals, to 67 Dental Unit and 101 Australian General Hospital and served in Darwin, NT (12 May 1944 to 30 November 1944).
Frances was born in Colac, Victoria in 1921, fourth of eight children of Charles (Charlie) Trigg (b1892 in Winchelsea, Victoria) and Frances Jenkins (b1893 in Woodford via Warrnambool, Victoria). Charlie (a Labourer) and Frances Snr married in 1913 in Warrnambool, where they lived before settling in Colac in 1917. Charlie worked as a Labourer until his death in 1954.
Frances was a Waitress in Colac when she enlisted in the Army. In 1948 she married Harold (Harry) Alexander Barby (b1927 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Harry had served in the Army in WWII and was an Orderley at Heidelberg Military Hospital when they married. Frances and Harry settled in Colac, where Frances initially worked as a Shop Assistant and Harry was a Laundryman, Timber Worker and then Farmer at Casterton. Frances moved to Portalnd in the mid 1960s, where she died in 1999. Harry moved to Melbourne in the late 1960s, where he worked as a Storeman. Harry died in 1970.
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