Frederick Robert FOX MM

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Service Number:	1010
Enlisted:	13 September 1914, Enlisted at Pontville, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	New Town, Tasmania, Australia, 2 December 1897
Home Town:	Lilydale, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Carcinoma of the stomach, Repatriation General Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 18 January 1968, aged 70 years
Cemetery:	Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania Service conducted on 23 January 1968 Roman Catholic Area, Section EE, Grave 185
Memorials:

13 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1010, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Pontville, Tasmania
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 1010, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 1010, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart
1 May 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12th Infantry Battalion, In France
19 Sep 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1010, 12th Infantry Battalion, Wounds to the face
25 Sep 1917:	Honoured Military Medal, Citation reads: In the attack on Polygon Wood, east of Hooge, on 20/21st September 1917 Private Fox was a member of the Intelligence Platoon and assisted in laying the tapes to mark the assembly position under most trying circumstances on swampy ground under heavy shell fire. He then returned to Halfway House with an urgent message, guided up the Battalion and subsequently acted as runner, carrying several messages through intense barrages. London Gazette on 17 December 1917, page 13198, position 23 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 May 1918, page 1036, position 107
27 Apr 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1010, 12th Infantry Battalion, Second occasion. In hospital for 7 days
29 Mar 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1010, 12th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 6th Military District

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Address at the time of enlistment was Lilydale, Tasmania.

Next of kin given as his brother Albert Fox of 16 Windsor Street, Launceston, Tasmania

At the time of his death he was living at New Town, Tasmania

Commenced return to Australia on 3 December 1918 disembarking on 27 January 1919

Medals: Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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