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BRIGGS, Frank
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 3762 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Young, Young, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 3 May 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 20 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3762, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3762, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney |
Personal Stories
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Frank BRIGGS, (Service Number 3762) born in Young in 1891, joined the Tramways in Sydney as a conductor in 1913. In September 1915 he enlisted in the AIF in Sydney.
Sent via Egypt to France, he landed there and joined his unit in April 1916. He was reported wounded in action on 3 May 1917. Subsequently this report was altered to ‘wounded and missing’, and in September changed again to ‘killed in action’ when he was identified as buried at a map reference ‘E of Bullecourt’. It seems that the location could not be found later, and he is commemorated, among those having no known grave, on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
(NAA B2455-3122742)
Submitted 11 May 2023 by John Oakes