JARRETT, Frank Harold
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 1 February 1916, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 9 June 1890 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Lambton Public School, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Shop assistant |
| Died: | GSW right knee, No 11 Casualty Clearing Station, France, 5 July 1917, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord Plot II, Row D, Grave No. 199 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, Newcastle, New South Wales | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Lieutenant, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Lieutenant, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 1 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
| 9 May 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
| 8 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Captain, 35th Infantry Battalion, Battle of Messines, GSW right knee, severe DoW No 11 Casualty Clearing Station | |
| 5 Jul 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Captain, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 35th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Captain awm_died_date: 1917-07-05 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Whitty
"...Captain Frank Harold Jarrett, 35th Battalion, of Newcastle, NSW. A shop assistant prior to enlisting in February 1916, Frank Jarrett embarked from Sydney on board HMAT Benalla (A24) on 1 May 1916. He was promoted to Lieutenant, in England, on 1 August 1916 and to Captain (Capt) on 9 May 1917. Capt Jarrett was wounded in action on 8 June 1917, and returned to his unit ten days later. On 5 July 1917 he died of wounds received in action at Messines, Belgium. Capt Jarrett was 27 years of age." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen Soldier of The Great War and his Widow, sleeping at Sandgate Cemetery.
104 years ago today, on the 5th July 1917, Captain Frank Harold Jarrett, 35th Battalion, shop assistant from St James Road, New Lambton, New South Wales, father of two (Daphna Grace, Grace Elis), Died of Wounds received at Messines, Belgium, age 27.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 9th June 1890 to Mark and Ann Jarrett; husband of Grace Elizabeth Jarrett nee McVity (married 1914, Lambton, N.S.W., died 1988, aged 95) of Addison Road, New Lambton, New South Wales, Frank enlisted February 1916 at Newcastle? N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 12.1.1917 (scabies), wounded in action - 8.6.1917 (GSW right knee), 5.7.1917 (SW head and chest), Frank is resting at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot II Row D Grave 199.
Mr. Jarrett’s name has been inscribed on the Lambton and New Lambton Roll of Honor, New Lambton War Memorial Gates, Lambton Hand of Freedom Lodge, U.A.O. Druids Roll of Honour and Board, Book of Gold and the Baulkham Hills - World War 1 Memorial - William Thompson Masonic Schools.
Frank’s wife Grace Elizabeth Jarrett had been a war widow for 71 years when she passed away in 1988, and unfortunately there is no memorial inscription on her headstone to tell us of the supreme sacrifice of her husband during The Great War. ANGLICAN 2-131. 33.
I am unable to erect a memorial cross at the gravesite of Mrs. Jarrett, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of Frank’s service with the 35th Battalion, 1st A.I.F., and for God, King and Country.
Lest We Forget.
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