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DANIEL, Frederick Lester
| Service Number: | 18776 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 April 1917, Mount Gambier, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 5 May 1897 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Chemist's Assistant |
| Died: | Circumstances of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Cremation |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Apr 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 18776, Army Medical Corps (AIF), Mount Gambier, SA | |
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| 22 Dec 1917: | Involvement Private, 18776, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1917: | Embarked Private, 18776, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 18776, 1st Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
18776 Frederick Lester DANIEL was born at Mount Gambier on 5 May 1897. He had left Mount Gambier with his father and mother in June 1910. His mother had died early in 1911 and his father had sent him back to Mount Gambier, placing Frederick under the care of his uncle. His father died at Ararat in Victoria in September 1915. Frederick was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 12 June 1911 by his uncle, Frederick H. Daniel, a solicitor, of Elizabeth Street, Mount Gambier, having previously attended school in Victoria. He left school on 28 June 1912.
He enlisted in Mount Gambier on 22 April 1917 (19, chemist’s assistant, single, Church of England) naming his sister, Miss Margaret Lester Daniel, c/o his guardian Colonel Frederick Henry Daniel of Mount Gambier, as his next of kin, having previously been rejected in September 1916 because of flat feet. He embarked from Melbourne on the ‘Ulysses’ on 22 December 1917, disembarked at Suez in Egypt on 16 January 1918, re-embarked at Port Said on 24 January and travelled via Taranto, eventually disembarking at Southampton in England on 15 February. He was then attached to the 1st Australian Army Medical Corps Training Depot. In July he was hospitalised with tonsillitis.
On 4 October 1918 he was sent to France, joining the 2nd Australian General Hospital at Wimereux briefly before being transferred to the 1st Field Ambulance. He was hospitalised with a hernia on 5 December 1918 and evacuated to England on 22 December. He left Portland in England for return to Australia on the ‘Nevassa’ on 5 March 1919, and disembarked on 25 April. He arrived back in Mount Gambier on Monday 16 June and was given a public welcome home at the Town Hall, before being discharged from the AIF on 28 June 1919.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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