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ELLIOTT, Frederick Charles
| Service Number: | 56072 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 March 1918, Mount Gambier, SA |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 1st Divisional Ammunition Column |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 26 October 1899 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Mar 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 56072, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, Mount Gambier, SA | |
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| 23 Jul 1918: | Involvement Private, 56072, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Jul 1918: | Embarked Private, 56072, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, HMAT Marathon, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Gunner, 56072, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
56072 Frederick Charles ELLIOTT was born at Mount Gambier on 26 October 1899. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 9 October 1911 by his father, Charles Fred Elliott, labourer, of Commercial Street, Mount Gambier. He left the school on 27 September 1912. He enlisted at Mount Gambier on 13 March 1918 (18, labourer, married, Presbyterian) naming his wife, Mrs A.M. Elliott of Mount Gambier as his next of kin. He embarked from Melbourne on the ‘Marathon’ on 23 July 1918, disembarked at London on 27 September 1918 and was attached to the 1st Training Battalion.
He was sent to France on 22 November 1918 and joined the 1st Division Artillery Column on 4 December. He embarked from France for England in early May 1919, and left England for return to Australia on the ‘Suevic’ in July, disembarked on 7 September and was discharged on 23 September. He was given a welcome home at the Compton Downs School on Friday 10 October 1919.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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