FROST, Percy John
| Service Number: | 2780 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 September 1916, 4th AI Regiment, 6 mths |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, March 1889 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fruit merchant (Messrs. J. Frost and Son, Newcastle West, N.S.W.) |
| Died: | Hamilton South, New South Wales, Australia, 18 July 1941, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-113A. 57 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2780, 34th Infantry Battalion, 4th AI Regiment, 6 mths | |
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| 25 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2780, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2780, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
83 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 20th July 1941, Private Percy John Frost, 2nd Battalion (Reg No- 2780B), fruit merchant (Messrs. J. Frost and Son, Newcastle West, N.S.W.), from Langford Street, Newcastle, New South Wales and 43 Stanley Street, Hamilton South, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 53. ANGLICAN 2-113A. 57.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the ? ? 1889 to John and Martha Frost from Hunter Street, West Newcastle, N.S.W.; husband of Elspeth Campbell Frost nee Anderson, married 24.12.1914, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 10.3.1975, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 86, 33 years a widow, sleeping here, Perc enlisted on the 19th June 1916 with the 34th Battalion, Reg No-2780, at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 25th November 1916.
Admitted to hospital 2.11.1917 (laryngitis, slight).
Invalided to England 10.11.1917.
Perc arrived home on the 12th March 1918, being discharged medically unfit (trench fever, nephritis) on the 4th May 1918.
I have not located Mr. Frost’s name inscribed on any known War Memorials or Rolls of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Perc’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
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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