Frederick James HAMMOND

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HAMMOND, Frederick James

Service Number:	2832
Enlisted:	1 June 1916, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	43rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Balaklava, South Australia, 25 June 1886
Home Town:	Geranium, Southern Mallee, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Died of wounds, Belgium, 18 October 1917, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No.3 Grave I. L. 23. No 3 Vlamertinghe Memorial Panel 136,
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Geranium War Memorial

World War 1 Service

1 Jun 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2832, Adelaide, South Australia
16 Dec 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2832, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: ''
16 Dec 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2832, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Adelaide
17 Oct 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2832, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, GSW (thigh and foot)

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Son of David and Katherine Hammond, of Geranium, South Australia.

Biography

Fred enlisted from Geranium SA where he was farming with his brother Will Hammond from 1906.

Enlisted AIF 11.6.1916 30 years of age.

Height 5'6" blue eyes and fair hair.

Trained in Mitcham camp Adelaide

Embarked to England on Berrima 16.12.1916 Disembarked Devonport on to Rolleston Camp Salisibury Plain England on 16.2.1917

To France from Southampton 9.7.1917

Wounded gunshot wound to thigh and foot 17.10.1917

Died of wounds in 2nd Anzac Medical Dressing station Belgium 18.10.1917

Buried in Brandhoek New Military Cemetery

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