PETNEY, Francis Frederick James
| Service Number: | 9661 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 February 1916, 2 years senior cadets, 82nd Infantry |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 11th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Wilcannia, New South Wales, 18 September 1895 |
| Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | apprentice pattern maker (Zinc Corporation), from 182 Carbon Street, Railway Town, Broken Hill, NSW |
| Died: | DoW - SW chest/back HE shell, Stuff Camp, Pont de Nieppe, Belgium, 6 June 1917, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Nieppe Communal Cemetery, France Plot II, Row A, Grave No. 12 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Broken Hill Barrier District Roll of Honour, Broken Hill Old Burke Ward Boys Roll of Honor, Broken Hill Railwaytown War Memorial, Broken Hill War Memorial, Broken Hill Zinc Corporation Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 9661, 11th Field Company Engineers, 2 years senior cadets, 82nd Infantry | |
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| 31 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 9661, 11th Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 31 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 9661, 11th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Suevic, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography 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 6th June 1917, Sapper Francis Frederick James Petney, referred to as Frank, 11th Field Company, Australian Engineers (Reg No-9661), apprentice pattern maker (Zinc Corporation), from 182 Carbon Street, Railway Town, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Died of Wounds In the Field after being wounded severely in the chest and back by an high explosive enemy shell at Stuff Camp, Pont de Nieppe, Belgium, age 21 years 8 months.
Born at Wilcannia, New South Wales on the 18th September 1895 to Frederick (died 5.10.1925, "The Barrier", Bridge Street, Waratah, N.S.W., age 69), and Eva Petney (remarried?, died?), Frank enlisted on the 10th February 1916 at Broken Hill, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Outer Harbour, South Australia on board HMAT A29 Suevicon the 31st May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 15.1.1917 (mumps).
Wounded in action - 6.6.1917.
Mr. Petney is resting at Nieppe Communal Cemetery, France. Plot II Row A Grave 12.
Place of Association - Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Frank’s name has been inscribed on the Broken Hill Great War Memorial, Barrier District Roll of Honor, Broken Hill Old Burke Ward Boys Roll of Honour, Broken Hill Zinc Corporation Roll of Honour, Broken Hill War Memorial Reserve World War 1 Cenotaph (The Bomber), Broken Hill Railwaytown War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Petney gravesite in remembrance of Frank’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) L SW. 34.
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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