HUNTINGTON, Francis Edric
| Service Number: | 2567 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 April 1916, 5th Reinforcements |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 42nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 6 June 1896 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 31 July 1917, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial - Ypres (Ieper) Arrondissement Ieper West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen) Belgium, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane 42nd Infantry Battalion AIF Roll of Honour, Brisbane Grammar School Memorial Library WW1 Honour Board 1, East Brisbane War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2567, 42nd Infantry Battalion, 5th Reinforcements | |
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| 17 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2567, 42nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2567, 42nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane | |
| 12 Jul 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 42nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 31 Jul 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 2567, 42nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2567 awm_unit: 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-07-31 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Ric was the second of five children of Francis (Frank) Hethersett Huntingdon (born 1861 in Sydney, NSW) and Edith Amy Barr (born 1867 in Brisbane, QLD). Frank - a Public Servant with the Education Department - and Edith married in Brisbane, QLD in 1892. They settled in Brisbane, QLD where they raised their family.
Ric was a Clerk in Brisbane when he enlisted in the AIF in April 1916 and served as a Corporal with 42nd Infantry Battalion. He was KiA in July 1917. In a letter to Ric's parents following his death, Captain Leahy says 'Your son, who had only joined us recently, faced an ordeal that called for the fullest exercise of personal courage and powers of endurance, and I am proud to say that he discharged his duties to the end with marked ability and steadiness very gratifying to his officers .... You will be relieved to learn that his end came suddenly, and he was spared any undue suffering'.
Older brother Sergeant Hethersett Roland Hetherington (Service No:5791) also served in WWI.
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