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JONES, Frederick George Sweeney

Service Number:	3557
Enlisted:	25 September 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Violet Town, Victoria, Australia, 15 September 1889
Home Town:	Greenbushes, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Sleeper hewer
Died:	Killed in Action, Mouquet Farm, France, 3 September 1916, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Greenbushes War Memorial, W.A., Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

25 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3557, 28th Infantry Battalion
17 Jan 1916:	Involvement Private, 3557, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
17 Jan 1916:	Embarked Private, 3557, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Fremantle
3 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 3557, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3557 awm_unit: 51 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-09-03

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