PYBUS, Frederick Hagedorn
| Service Number: | 150 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 January 1916, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Davenport, South Australia, 2 June 1891 |
| Home Town: | Dulwich, Burnside, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Port Augusta Public School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Plumber |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Celtic Wood, Belgium , 9 October 1917, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Burnside District Fallen Soldiers' Memorial - Rose Park, Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Burnside & District - Fallen Soldiers Memorial Trees - Rose Park, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Port Augusta Davenport WW1 Memorial, Port Augusta RSL Hall Circular Honour Roll, Soldiers' Memorial Band Rotunda, Tusmore Burnside District Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 150, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 9 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 150, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 150, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide | |
| 12 Jan 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 150, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
| 30 Jul 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 150, 10th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, Killed in Action 8/9 October 1917 - one of the 'Celtic Wood Raiders' until 2017 deemed to be one of the 'great mysteries' of the AIF. Researched and explained in full by Robert Kearney OAM (and VWMA Researcher) in his book "Raid on Celtic Wood" 2017 |
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Raid On Celtic Wood
150c Private Frederick Hagedorn Pybus a plumber from Port Augusta, South Australia was in the field with C Company.
Credible witness statements in his Red Cross file. Private Sims, C Company. - 'I last saw No. 150 Private Pybus F.H. 10th Battalion, near Polygon Wood, Belgium, early in October 1917. He took part in the charge against the German trenches and was in my platoon. He was lying on the ground wounded. This is the last I saw of him’.
Private Sims, C Company. - ‘Pybus was in “No Man’s Land” and was left on the field wounded’.
He was recorded on the 13 October Field Return as wounded on 8 October but then recorded ‘Wounded and Missing 8/10/17’ on the 14 November Field Return. The finding by a Court of Inquiry convened on 16 May 1918 was that he, like the raid commander and so many of the other raiders, had been killed in action on 9 October 1917.
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