Frank MARTIN

MARTIN, Frank

Service Number: 3826
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 1st Infantry Battalion
Born: Cheltenham, England, 1876
Home Town: Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Tram Driver
Died: Killed in Action, France, 22 July 1916
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, Surry Hills Crown Street Public School War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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Biography contributed by John Oakes

Frank MARTIN (Service Number 3826) was born at Cheltenham, England about 1876. He joined the Tramways as a conductor in 1907 and became an electric tram driver in 1912. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces in September 1915, though he had already enlisted in August, aged 38½, leaving his older wife Jane, whom he had married that year in Sydney.

He was killed in action in France between 22nd and 25th July, 1916, and was buried ‘in the vicinity of Pozières’.  His grave being subsequently unlocated, he is memorialised at Villers Bretonneux.     

- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.

 

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