OLIFENT, Frank Vounder
| Service Number: | 7828 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Weetulta, nr Moonta, South Australia, 20 January 1887 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, 15 December 1987, aged 100 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7828, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Jun 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7828, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Mar 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 7828, 11th Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918 | |
| 30 Aug 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 7828, 11th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days" | |
| 18 Sep 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 7828, 11th Infantry Battalion, Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal, Evacuated VSI to the UK | |
| 16 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7828, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
| 16 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7828, 11th Infantry Battalion, HQ 5MD Perth |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Steve Larkins
Born in South Austrlia, Frank Olifent was working in WA when war broke out.
He enlisted in 1916, and his wife, Mrs Maude Olifent, was listed as next of kin and presumably resided with her mother, Mrs M Blain, Tureen Homestead, Maidenwell PO via Coora, Queensland.
He had previous service in the SA Militia and WA Clarement senior cadets. He was promoted several times finally appointed Sergeant during pre embarkation training but as was customary at the time reverted to the rank of Private once embarked.
After depot training in the UK at Sutton Veny he embarked for France arriving at the close of the Third Ypres campaign. Serving in the early months of 1918 including the German Spring Offensive, he was hospitalised in April ill and evacuated to England where he was admitted to hospital at Sutton Veny on the Salisbury Plain.
He returned to his unit in time to joim the "Last Hundred Days" offensive. On 18 September he sustained a shrapnel wound (also described in his records as a 'gunshot wound') resulting in evacuation to the 3rd General Hospital Brighton, UK. As a result of the occurrence of Gas Gangrene, arising from the wound to his right leg and ankle and thigh, his right leg was amputated above the knee. He was invalided back to Australia in March 1919 and after further treatment and the fitting of a 'peg leg', with a prosthetic limb 'on the way', Frank was discharged medically unfit on 16 Sep 1919. His files reveal a few trials and tribulations with pension entitlements.
Frank Olifent died in 1987 in WA having become a centenarian earlier that year.
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Compiled by Steve Larkins Dec 2019 from his NAA service record.
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