Norman Lewis FROST

FROST, Norman Lewis

Service Number: T29646
Enlisted: 27 April 1942
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Carrick, Tasmania, Australia, 12 October 1881
Home Town: Ulverstone, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Garage Proprietor
Died: Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia, 25 February 1955, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Ulverstone General Cemetery, Tasmania
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World War 2 Service

27 Apr 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, T29646
19 Oct 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, T29646, 4 Battalion VDC

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Norman Lewis Frost (Service No:T29646) served with the ACMF - 4 Battalion VDC - from 27 April 1942 to 19 October 1945. Sergeant Frost had served with the 2nd Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen (Private/Trooper; Service No:161) in the Boer War.

Born in 1881 in Westbury Tasmania, Norman was the second of four children of Alfred Arthur Frost (b1847 in Launceston, Tasmania) and Mary Ann Sherwood (b1843 in Middlesex, England) - Mary Ann worked as a Domestic Servant in Surrey, England. Alfred (a Carpenter) and Mary Ann married in 1878 in Launceston, Tasmania and settled in Westbury where they raised their family and Alfred worked as a Carpenter and Labourer.

Norman worked as a Cycle Mechanic/Engineer and in 1907 in Devonport, Tasmania he married Elizabeth Heazlewood (b1882 in Ulverstone, Tasmania). Norman and Elizabeth settled in Ulverstone where they raised their family and Norman worked as a Cycle Mechanic/Engineer - in his WWII Attestation Papers he stated he was a Garage Proprietor. Elizabeth died in 1953 and Norman in 1955.

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