PERRY, Frank Davey
| Service Numbers: | 1164, 2164 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Braintree, Essex, England, United Kingdom, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Richmond (NSW), Hawkesbury, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Braintree High School |
| Occupation: | Assistant Chemist at Courtauld's Silk Mill." in England and Fettler in Australia |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 7 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Special Memorial B. 7. INSCRIPTION THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT , Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 1164, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 1164, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
| 7 Aug 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 2164, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2164 awm_unit: 3 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-08-07 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was born in Essex in 1894 [birth registered in Braintree] the son of James and Rosa Perry of Highfields, Bocking, Braintree, Essex, England. The exact date of death could not be verified but it was between 07/08/1915 and 12/08/1915.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
1901 Census. Father a farmer, one sister two brothers. 1911 one more brother and sister added to family.
Resident: Windsor Street, Richmond, New South Wales Enlisted: Rosehill, New South Wales, 05/10/1914
Embarked: a Melbourne, Victoria, on HMAT A32 Thermistocles, 22/12/1914.
"Corporal Frank Perry, son of James and Rosa Perry of Highfields Stile Farm, High Garrett Road, Bocking, has been wounded in the thigh, by shrapnel, whilst in the Dardinelles (sic). Cpl Perry is serving with the 3rd Battalion of the Australian Expeditionary Force. He was formerly a pupil at the Braintree High School and had been in Australia several years when the war broke out." (Essex Chron 25th June 15) "Frank died in August and was the first of the 'old boys' to fall. Before going to Australia was employed in the chemists department of Courtauld's Silk Mill." (Essex Chron 3rd Sept 1917 (?1915?)) Lone Pine "For three days, from the evening of 6 August until the night of 9 August 1915, the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine were the scene of some of the most desperate fighting at Gallipoli. When it was all over 2000 Australians and 6000 Turks had been killed or wounded. Gallipoli and the Anzacs There is a Private Memorial in St Mary's Church, Bocking to Frank Perry.
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