Frederick BROGDEN

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BROGDEN, Frederick

Service Number:	718
Enlisted:	22 January 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	34th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 18 October 1891
Home Town:	Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales
Schooling:	New Lambton Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Killed in Action, Messines, Belgium, 31 May 1917, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Wallonie, Belgium Strand Military Cemetery (Plot II, Row C, Grave No. 5), Ploegsteert Wood, Belhgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

22 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 718, 34th Infantry Battalion
2 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 718, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
2 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 718, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery
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103 years ago today, on the 31st May 1917, Private Frederick Brogden, 34th Battalion, miner (Waratah Colliery), of 284 Lambton Road, New Lambton, New South Wales, was killed by an enemy artillery shell just before the Battle of Messines in Belgium, age 24.
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1677929/
https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1481407/

Born at New Lambton, New South Wales on the 27th November 1892 to Marshall (died 1939 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133740944) and Eva Chadwick (died 1923 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139936453) Brogden nee Davies, Frederick enlisted January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133879356

Admitted to hospital 10.12.1916 with trench feet, Mr Brogden is resting at Strand Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot II Row C Grave 5 – photo of headstone courtesy of Eddy Lin, Belgium.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134863094
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138749840
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122207639

Frederick’s name has been inscribed on the Lambton and New Lambton Roll of Honor, New Lambton War Memorial Gates - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133847517, New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour, Lambton Rose of Australia Lodge G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137095672, New Lambton Order of Rechabites Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

Memorialised at his parent’s gravesite at Sandgate Cemetery - METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 21 SW. 59.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=462513#2

Younger brother Simeon (Reg No-3018, 56th Battalion, born 1893, died 1950, ashes Beresfield Crematorium) also served 1st A.I.F.
Lest We Forget.

Biography

Service Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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