KNEEBONE, Frederick Valentine
| Service Numbers: | 2182, V84315, V84315 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 60th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 14 February 1892 |
| Home Town: | Mildura, Mildura Shire, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Horticulturalist |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 July 1983, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne The Victorian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: | Kew War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2182, 60th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2182, 60th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2182, 60th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne | |
| 16 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2182, 60th Infantry Battalion, France: Gas Shell | |
| 25 Mar 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2182, 60th Infantry Battalion, France: Shell Wound (amputation at ankle) | |
| 23 Jul 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2182, 60th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Karoola | |
| 23 Dec 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2182, 60th Infantry Battalion |
World War 2 Service
| 28 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , V84315 | |
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| 14 Jun 1948: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , V84315 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Frederick Valentine Kneebone (Service No:2182) enlisted in the AIF on 1 April 1916 with 60 Depot Battalion Bendigo, and was attached to 60th Infantry Battalion on 1 August 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Plymouth on board HMAT A67 Orsova. Private Kneebone served with 60th Infantry Battalion in France, where he was WiA on two occasions - in 1917 he was hospitalised in England with Gas Poisoning, and in 1918 he suffered an amputation below the knee following a Shell Wound. Private Kneebone embarked from England for Melbourne on 23 July 1918 on board HT Karoola, and was attached to 60th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 23 December 1918. Private Kneebone enlisted in the ACMF in Melbourne on 28 May 1940 with 3rd District Records, continuing with the Interim Army as a Lance Corporal attached to Army HQ until Discharge on 14 June 1948. Siblings Geoff and Clive also served in WWI.
Fred was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1892, eldest of five children of Frederick (Fred) Thomas Sydney Lancey Kneebone (b1865 in Malta) and Constance Browning Mason (b1866 in Woods Point, Victoria). Fred Snr studied at Slade School of Art in London and was a Scenic Artist with the Gaiety Theatre of London in 1889 when they came to Melbourne. Fred Snr remained in Melbourne, where he was one of the earliest members on the artists' staff of the Herald and Weekly Times. Constance was a Journalist in Melbourne, and she and Fred Snr married in 1890 in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and both continued work - Fred Snr as an Artist and Constance as a Journalist.
Fred was in partnership with his brother Geoff as a Horticulturalist in Mildura in 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, he returned to Mildura, and in 1919 was awarded land for fruit growing at Mildura under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act 1917. In his application, although Fred stated that his future wife was still in England, he remained single. Following his father's death in 1939, Fred settled in Melbourne where he lived with his mother and sister Ettie (a Nurse), and was a Clerk in 1940 when he enlisted in the ACMF. Fred died in 1983.
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