MUST, Frederick John James
| Service Number: | 1309 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Port Adelaide, South Australia, June 1884 |
| Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 10 July 1929, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-142. 79. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1309, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 1309, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 1309, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
| 16 Nov 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1309, 4th Pioneer Battalion, 2nd MD, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac who served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
94 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 12th July 1929, Private Frederick John James McCallum Must, 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No-1309), labourer from Sulphide Street, Broken Hill, New South Wales and 9 Oliver Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 45. ANGLICAN 2-142. 79. Not married.
Born at Port Adelaide, South Australia 1884 to Frederick Charles and Marianne (Marrianna, Marion) Must nee Simons of 21 Swan Street, Hamilton, New South Wales, Fred enlisted on the 11th September 1914 with the 16th Battalion at Morphettville, South Australia.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on the 22nd December 1914.
Admitted to hospital 8.5.1915 (cellulitis, left arm), 27.8.1915 (influenza), 31.8.1815 (enteritis), 13.4.1917 (overlapping toe, hammer toe, callosity left foot).
Fred returned home on the 28th September 1918, being discharged medically unfit (synovitis left knee joint) on the 16th November 1918.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.
Mr. Must’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not located inscribed on any known Broken Hill War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Fred’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Younger brother Dudley Roy (born 1895? Broken Hill?, N.S.W., clerk from Sulphide Street, Broken Hill, New South Wales, enlisted 9.12.1914, 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Reg No-544, RTA, 22.1.1919, invalided, died 28.6.1976, Cessnock, New South Wales, age 81.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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