Cyril Clyde FRANKLYN

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FRANKLYN, Cyril Clyde

Service Number:	4857
Enlisted:	14 July 1915
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	2nd Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Northcote, Victoria, Australia, 5 June 1895
Home Town:	Northcote, Darebin, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Killed in action, Belgium, 22 August 1917, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium Plot III, Row A, Grave No. 10.
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World War 1 Service

14 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 4857, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade
15 Sep 1915:	Involvement Driver, 4857, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Makarini embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
15 Sep 1915:	Embarked Driver, 4857, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , SS Makarini, Melbourne
22 Aug 1917:	Involvement Lieutenant, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 6th Australian Field Artillery Battery awm_rank: Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1917-08-22

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Cyril Clyde Franklyn was the son of Edmond and Edith Galloway Franklyn of Northcote, Victoria. His father had passed away during 1907, when Cyril was 12 years old.

His older brother 3356 C.S.M. Alfred Gordon Franklyn 59th Battalion AIF, had been killed in action near Bapaume, France on 24 March 1917, aged 25.

Franklyn embarked as a 20-year-old Driver with the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, but after four months training at a Gunnery School at St. John's Wood in London, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant in March 1917 and then to full Lieutenant in July 1917, just a month before he was killed instantly by shell fire at Sanctuary Wood near Zillebeke, Belgium.

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