WADGE, Frank
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 18 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Templecombe, Somerset, England, 21 April 1888 |
| Home Town: | Cottesloe, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Accountant |
| Died: | 1970, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Greenbushes War Memorial, W.A. |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 22 Dec 1915: | Involvement 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ajana embarkation_ship_number: A31 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1915: | Embarked 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ajana, Fremantle | |
| 9 Sep 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 10 May 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Captain Frank Wadge, MC and Bar, MID x2, and French Croix de Guerre
Upon enlistment Frank registered his mother, Mrs Kate Maidment of Bath, England as NOK then later his wife, H. E. G. Wadge of Norwich, England, after he married her in England during 1917.
Frank served in Egypt 1916, France 1916-1919 and was wounded in the thigh at Mouquet Farm, France on 31 August 1916. He requested and was granted a discharge in England on compassionate grounds to support his family because his two brothers were killed in action and a third, also a soldier, had lost all use of a hand.
His brothers Lt. Herbert Wadge, 4th Pioneer Battalion AIF was killed in action, 20 November 1916, age 32. Lt. Ernest Wadge, Canadian Light Horse was killed in action 10 November 1917, age 27.