
CULLEN, Frank
Service Number: | 6059 |
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Enlisted: | 11 September 1916, Enlisted at Adelaide |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Templers, South Australia, 16 June 1886 |
Home Town: | Mallala, Mallala, South Australia |
Schooling: | Wasleys School, Wasleys, South Australia |
Occupation: | Butcher |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 25 December 1917, aged 31 years |
Cemetery: |
Prowse Point Cemetery Plot 111, Row b, Grave 2 Headstone inscription reads: Nothing in my hand I bring simply to the cross I cling , Prowse Point Military Cemetery, Wallonie, Belgium |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mallala District of Grace WW1 Roll of Honor, Mallala War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
11 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, SN 6059, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Adelaide | |
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6 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, SN 6059, 27th Infantry Battalion | |
6 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, SN 6059, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Place of birth as per Book/Page 586/170. Attestation papers states the place of birth as Templers a small town just a short distance north of Willaston
Son of Michael Cullen and Mary (nee Warden) Cullen of Balaklava, previously Mallala, SA; brother Sydney Arnold Cullen, Doris Elvera Cullen, Harold William Thomas Cullen, Allan Clifton Cullen and Leslie Leonard Cullen
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal