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MOORE, Frederick William
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 165 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1914, An original of A Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Buckhorn Weston, Dorset, England, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Kingston Magna School, Dorset, England |
| Occupation: | Orchardist |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Alexandria, Egypt, 3 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery Row C, Grave 180 Remembered on Kington Magna War Memorial Cross, Dorset, England. |
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Service History
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 165, 12th Infantry Battalion, An original of A Company | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 165, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 165, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Frederick William Moore stated on his Attestation Papers that he had previously served with “In Dragoons” for 16 days but had been called out by his mother as being under age – 16 years.
Born and raised in Dorset, England he had only been in Australia for about a year before he enlisted at Brighton in Tasmania.
Wounded at the Anzac landing, he died of wounds in the Bombay General Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt.