PENDLETON, Frederick Walter Thomas
| Service Number: | 4616 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 September 1915, West Maitland |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 28 November 1896 |
| Home Town: | East Maitland, Maitland Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | East Maitland School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Apprentice wagon builder |
| Died: | KIA - SW from HE shell, Delville Wood, France, 7 December 1916, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, East Maitland Municipality of East Maitland Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Wickham Honey Suckle Point (H.S.P.) Loco Railway Workshops Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4616, West Maitland | |
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| 15 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 4616, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 15 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 4616, 1st Infantry Battalion, RMS Osterley, Sydney | |
| 7 Dec 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 4616, 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4616 awm_unit: 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Battery Field Artillery awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1916-12-07 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Frederick Walter Thomas PENDLETON was born in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1896
His parents were William PENDLETON & Charlotte Frances Ruth KINSELEY
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 7th December 1916, Gunner Frederick Walter Thomas Pendleton, 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Battery Field Artillery (Reg No-4616), apprentice wagon builder (Honeysuckle Point Loco workshops), from Pierce Street, East Maitland, New South Wales, was Killed in Action by shrapnel from a high explosive shell at Delville Wood, France, age 20 years 9 days.
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1655471/ - Roll of Honour.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 28th November 1896 to William (died 20.3.1960, Hurstville, N.S.W., age?, buried?) of Lindsay Street, East Maitland, N.S.W. (1917) and "Delville", Patrick Street, Merewether, N.S.W. (1923) and 102 Princes Highway, Kogarah, N.S.W., and Charlotte Frances Ruth Pendleton nee Kinseley (died 6.9.1931, Kogarah, N.S.W., age 55, mother of 5) of "Delville", Patrick Street, Merewether, New South Wales and 102 Princes Highway, Kogarah, N.S.W., Fred enlisted on the 21st August 1915 with the 1st Battalion at West Maitland, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127141681 - report that Fred had received gifts from the residents of Pierce Street, East Maitland, New South Wales.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board RMS Osterley on the 15th January 1916.
Disembarked Marseilles, France 13.6.1916.
Fred’s name has been inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Mr. Pendleton’s name has also been inscribed on the East Maitland War Memorial, East Maitland St. Peter's Anglican Church Roll of Honour Tablet, Honeysuckle Point Loco Workshop Roll of Honour, Book of Gold, Newcastle South Public School Roll of Honour, NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised gravesite of mother Charlotte in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of her son Fred for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 1-07. 96.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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