John FRAME

Badge Number: 48603, Sub Branch: State
48603

FRAME, John

Service Number: 3316
Enlisted: 26 July 1915, at Keswick
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 50th Infantry Battalion
Born: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 11 November 1884
Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Way College
Occupation: Commercial Traveller
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World War 1 Service

26 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3316, 10th Infantry Battalion, at Keswick
27 Oct 1915: Involvement Private, 3316, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
27 Oct 1915: Embarked Private, 3316, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Adelaide
28 Mar 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 3316, 13th Field Ambulance, The Outpost Villages - German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line, GSW forehead
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Corporal, 3316, 50th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by St Ignatius' College

John Frame was born 11 November 1884. When the First World War began he was a married man, living in North Adelaide and employed as a commercial traveller. He enlisted in the AIF on 26 July 1915 and embarked from Australia on the HMAT Benalla on 27 October. He arrived in Egypt in early 1916 meaning he missed the fighting on Gallipoli. He served in the 13th Field Ambulance was often detached to duty with infantry battalions.

On 28 March 1917 Frame was badly wounded in the forehead and spent nearly two months in hospital. He returned to duty on 25 May. In September 1918, after more than two years helping wounded men in some of the worst fighting on the Western Front, Frame was returned to Australia suffering with chronic asthma. Nothing is known of his postwar life.

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