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Service Number:	384
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	5th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Kington, Herefordshire, England, 1891
Home Town:	Mundubbera, North Burnett, Queensland
Schooling:	Hay Council School.
Occupation:	Sugar Boiler's Mate by trade. Originally a Gamekeeper in England for Captain Kidston, of Breconshire.
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 28 June 1915
Cemetery:	Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot II. Row K. Grave 11. , Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Broadwater & District War Memorial, Ettrick WWI Honor Roll

21 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 384, 5th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
21 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 384, 5th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Persic, Sydney
28 Jun 1915:	Involvement Trooper, 384, 5th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 384 awm_unit: 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-06-28

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Births Dec 1891 Tong Frank Kington 6a 529
Kington spans the boundaries of the counties of Radnorshire and Herefordshire

He was 24 and the son of Mr. C. and Mrs. Eliza Tong,of 8 Brecon Road, Hay. Second of a family of fifteen.

Emigrated to Australia aged 21.

He is one of two Australian soldier casualties of the Great War remembered on the Hay War Memorial.

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