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SILVER, Frank Ellis
| Service Number: | 11157 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, November 1895 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Memorials: | Norwood Baptist Church WW1 Honour Rolls, Norwood Primary School Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 11157, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Barambah embarkation_ship_number: A37 public_note: '' | |
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| 27 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 11157, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Barambah, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 11157, 5th Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by St Ignatius' College
Frank Ellis Silver was born in November 1895 to mother and next of kin, Charlotte Emma Silver and his religion was Baptist.
Before he was to be shipped off to the army, Frank was a printer who would work on the printing machine to clean it and change the ink. Old printing machines were large and required a lot of man power and ink to operate properly and without any ink blots.
On the 2nd of December 1915, a young Frank (19 years and 10 months) went to enlist in the army. He departed on the 27th of June 1916 on the HMAT A37 Barambah. He was a part of the 5th field ambulance. The 5th field ambulance helped out by taking care of the sick or injured in the trenches. If it was bad enough they would bring the soldier back to the injury tents for further treatment. They also, like most battalions in the war, would hang around in a small, cramped, makeshift room when they weren’t on duty.
The HMAT A37 Barambah left on the 27th of June 1916 in Melbourne. It used to be a ship belonging to the Germans and was called ‘Hobart’ but it was captured, renamed and became a transport ship carrying between 1’000 – 2’000 soldiers to the Peninsula.
While in the war there were several occasions where Frank was sick and taken to hospital on various occasion between November 1917 to March 1919. Although it isn’t stated what Frank was sick with and how he got sick, I can only imagine it was because of handling the sick and injured but it couldn’t have been that bad due to him making it out of the war alive and well.
After 2 long years in the war, Frank was relived of his services and returned home to his mother Charlotte on the 12 of December 1918.
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