FRANCIS, Frank Lindsay
| Service Number: | 1537 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Hawthorn, Boroondara, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor driver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 30 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1537, 21st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 28 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1537, 21st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1537, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of George Henry and Emma Francis
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Killed in action at Pozieres on the same day as his younger brother 1536 Private Edward John Francis 21st Battalion AIF, 30 July, 1916.
Herald (Melbourne, Vic) 17 October 1916.
TWO BROTHERS KILLED ON THE SAME DAY IN FRANCE
Comrades in civil life- in arms, and now in death- so runs the patriotic life story of two sons of Mr. and Mrs. G. Francis, of Pleasant Road Upper Hawthorn.
Their lives were closely intertwined. Both were employees of Messrs. D. and AV. Chandler Proprietary Limited, of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy; both left for the front on the same day June 28 1915, with the First reinforcements 21st Battalion, 6th Brigade; both were on the torpedoed Southland; both were at the Gallipoli evacuation; both were killed on July 30 last. They were in the same machine gun section, having been transferred from the Infantry. Private E. J. (Ted) Francis was a member of the-Fitzroy Cricket Club, and gave promise as a left-hand bowler. In letters written a week before their death both said they were eager to meet the enemy, realizing that such was their mission. They added that as true Australians and Britons they intended "to see the job through."
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