Frederick Thomas MADDICKS

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MADDICKS, Frederick Thomas

Service Number:	3638
Enlisted:	9 November 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	47th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 26 June 1900
Home Town:	Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Christian Brothers, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Baker
Died:	Killed in action, Dernancourt, France, 5 April 1918, aged 17 years
Cemetery:	Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension Plot VI, Row I, Grave No. 25.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW1, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)

World War 1 Service

9 Nov 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3638, 47th Infantry Battalion
2 Aug 1917:	Involvement Private, 3638, 47th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: ''
2 Aug 1917:	Embarked Private, 3638, 47th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Frederick Thomas Maddicks was the son of Frederick and Bridget Maddicks, of Toowoomba, Queensland. He was two months short of his 18th birthday when he was killed in action at Dernancourt, France.

Frederick attended the Christian Brothers school in Toowoomba and was only 16 years of age when he enlisted, working as a baker.

His father, Frederick Maddicks, was an old soldier, having served in the Queensland Mounted Infantry during the Boer War in South Africa. The father also enlisted in WW1, and was noted in his file as a ‘big, heavy man.’ He was returned to Australia several months after arriving in England, with chronic bronchitis and as over age.

Frederick the younger arrived in Glasgow on the 2 October 1917 and joined the 47th Battalion at the front during January 1918. He was disciplined on four occasions for disobeying and using disrespectful language to his N.C.O. It is unknown how he died during the very heavy fighting at Dernancourt on 5 April 1918, but he at least has a grave in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension.

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