EGGLESTON, Frederick William
Service Number: | 7106 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic., 17 October 1875 |
Home Town: | Caulfield, Glen Eira, Victoria |
Schooling: | Wesley College Melbourne; Ley's School Cambridge England; University of Melbourne |
Occupation: | Solictor |
Died: | Melbourne, Vic., 12 November 1954, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Law Institute of Victoria |
World War 1 Service
16 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 7106, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
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16 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 7106, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Sir Frederick William Eggleston, a former Australian Minister to
the United States, died in Melbourne yesterday, aged 79.
Lawyer, author, State Cabinet Minister and Australian representative
abroad on a number of oc-casions, Sir Frederick was knighted in 1941.
Born in Melbourne and educated at Melbourne and Cambridge Universities, he had been a member of the Victorian bar for 47 years. He was a member of the First A.I.F. and was in the Australian delegation to the Paris peace conference in 1919.