Frederick Harold WESTON

WESTON, Frederick Harold

Service Number: 357
Enlisted: 30 November 1914
Last Rank: Trooper
Last Unit: 10th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Laura, SA, 16 April 1885
Home Town: Mundaring, Mundaring, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Orchardist
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 7 August 1915, aged 30 years
Cemetery: Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli
E 14, Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Laura Primary School Memorial Plaques, Mundaring Church of the Epiphany Plaque 2, Mundaring War Memorial, Sawyers Valley WW1 Roll of Honor
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World War 1 Service

30 Nov 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 357, 10th Light Horse Regiment
8 Feb 1915: Involvement Private, 357, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: ''
8 Feb 1915: Embarked Private, 357, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Fremantle
7 Aug 1915: Involvement Trooper, 357, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 357 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-08-07

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Henry WESTON and Emily nee WILLIAMS

Trooper Frederick Harold Weston was born at Laura, on April 16 1885. He entered the South Australian Railway Department in 1900, and six months later was transferred to Crystal Brook station. He resigned from the Railway Department to enter the Western Australian Bank, Perth, in 1902, and was in charge of the Midland Branch of that bank and institution, when he resigned in 1916, to assist his father in gardening pursuits. He joined the 10th Light Horse, A.I.F., on war being declared, and sailed for Egypt in October, 1914. The Light Horse not being suitable for operations on Gallipoli, he volunteered for service with the Western Australian Infantry, and was killed at Walker's Ridge, in that memorable charge of the Western Australians on August 7, 1915, when 72 officers and men made the supreme sacrifice. The last time he (the speaker) saw him was on visiting his home in Western Australia, about five years ago. He was very popular with everybody around Mundaring, a good rifle shot, and very similar to his brother Jack, so well known to Laura residents — a fine, manly, and gentlemanly fellow. The Weston family are pleased to know that their boy has not been for gotten by the Laura folk, and that in Laura, at least, the town of Fred's birth and upbringing, school children a generation hence will know Fred as one who willingly gave his life that freedom might be theirs.

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