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Corporal Frank Hinchliffe (Service No:WX5233) enlisted in the AIF on 25 July 1940 as a Private, and served in the Middle East and Greece/Crete (10 February 1941 - 3 December 1942). Private Hinchliffe served with Australian War Graves Maintenance Unit and 5 Australian War Graves Registration Unit.  Promoted to Corporal on 6 July 1946, he was attached to 2/11 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 15 November 1946. Corporal Hinchliffe served for seven years in the British Army - Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment (Regimental No:4492) - older brother Jack died of wounds on the Western Front in WWI.

Frank was born in Yorkshire, England in 1901, youngest of three children of Job Hinchliffe (b1861 in Holmfirth, Yorkshire, England) and Elizabeth Fleetwood (b1867 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England). Job (an Apprentice Tailor) and Elizabeth (a General Domestic Servant) married in 1880 in Yorkshire, where they settled and raised their family and Job worked as a Journeyman and Bespoke Tailor.

Frank worked as a Painter in Yorkshire before enlisting in the British Army in 1915. In 1920 he was a Soldier when he married his first wife Lillian Gill (b1899 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire) - Lillian was a Weaver. Frank and Lillian immigrated in 1925, arriving in Fremantle WA on board the Hobson's Bay. They settled in Albany, where Frank was a Labourer and Lillian a Weaver, and divorced in 1938. Lillian returned to England, where she was a Nurse during WWII at the Military Hospital Millbank, before returning to Australia in 1948. Frank was a Labourer in Cottesloe in 1939 when he remarried to Alice Joyce Price (b1914 in Pingelly, Western Australia). Frank and Alice lived in Cottesloe and Cannington, where Frank worked as a Labourer and, following his Discharge from the Army in 1946, as an Orderly with the Repatriation Department. Frank died in 1985 and Alice in 2003.