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PARKINS, Frederick Thomas Laurence
| Service Number: | 5306 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 August 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warooka, South Australia, 1 September 1874 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | 16 October 1938, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cheltenham Cemetery, South Australia Sx AX, drive B, Patch 5, Site 13AN |
| Memorials: | Maitland War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Aug 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 5306, 31st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Mar 1918: | Involvement Private, 5306, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Ormonde embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 2 Mar 1918: | Embarked Private, 5306, 31st Infantry Battalion, SS Ormonde, Sydney | |
| 23 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, 31st Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Lemar
Frederick Thomas Laurence PARKINS was born at Warooka, (Yorke Peninsula) on 01 September, 1874 to George James PARKIN and Eliza (TASKER.)
On 08.08.1908, Frederick PARKINS married Mildred Sabina BOWMAN born 13.07.1870 aged 38, daughter of Thomas and Catherine BOWMAN (nee Hooper) at the Methodist Parsonage, Moonta.
Military
Frederick Thomas Laurence PARKINS joined the AIF on 29.08.1917 at Brisbane being allocated service number 5306. His attestment paper indicates he was married to Mildred Sabina PARKINS with one child. He was posted to the 15th reinforcements of the 31st Battalion. He was 40 at the time of enlistment.
En route to England, he contracted measles and was placed in hospital in Egypt.
He arrived in England in August, 1918 and underwent training at Folkestone in England. He was then sent to France and was in France until the end of the war in November. He would have been involved in the battles of Amiens and then the final battles of the war to take the Hindenberg Line and the St Quentin Canal Tunnel. He returned to Australia in 1919 and was discharged on 23.05.1919.
He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
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