KLEIN, Francis Walter
| Service Number: | 5714 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Granville, New South Wales, Australia, 23 January 1890 |
| Home Town: | Canbelego, Cobar, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tailor |
| Died: | Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 3 July 1926, aged 36 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-19SW. 20. |
| Memorials: | Cobar Canbelego Roll of Honour, Granville St Mark's Anglican Church Memorial Windows |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5714, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 3 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 5714, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 5714, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney | |
| 24 Aug 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5714, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), 2nd MD, MU |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
97 years ago today, on the Saturday afternoon of the 24th July 1926, Private Francis Walter Klein, referred to as Frank, 45th Battalion (Reg No-5714), tailor from Canbelego, New South Wales and "Lurgan Vale", 2 Braye Street, Waratah, N.S.W. and 30 Hanbury Street, Mayfield, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 36. PRESBYTERIAN-19SW. 20.
Born at Granville, New South Wales on the 23rd January 1890 to William J and Mary Klein of Vulcan Street, Granville, New South Wales and Cardiff, N.S.W.; husband of Mary Klein nee Jones (married 1919, Parramatta, N.S.W., died 19.8.1922, Waratah, N.S.W., age 30, sleeping here), Frank enlisted on the 18th January 1916 with the 2nd Battalion at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A55 Kyarra on the 3rd June 1916.
Admitted to hospital 11.11.1916 (not stated), 23.11.1916 (sore feet), 14.12.1916 (abrasion to foot), 11.4.1917 (influenza & bronchitis), 9.10.1917 (bronchitis).
Transferred to England 22.4.1917 & 17.10.1917.
Frank was invalided home on the 12th June 1918, being discharged medically unfit (asthma & bronchitis) on the 24th August 1918.
Mr. Klein’s name has been inscribed on the Cobar Canbelego Roll of Honour and the Granville St Mark's Anglican Church Memorial Windows. A member of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows, New South Wales, so name possibly inscribed on a Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Frank’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Many thanks to Leesa Putan for the notification.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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