HARBOTTLE, Frank
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 11 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Major |
| Last Unit: | 6th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 18 November 1872 |
| Home Town: | Claremont, Glenorchy, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Christ College |
| Occupation: | Soldier |
| Died: | Illness, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, 7 August 1923, aged 50 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania CE DD 330 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, Officer, 2nd Division Artillery | |
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| 22 Nov 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Captain, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Captain, Officer, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Persic, Melbourne | |
| 7 Aug 1923: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Major, Officer, 6th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| Date unknown: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches | |
| Date unknown: | Honoured Companion of the Distinguished Service Order |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
MAJOR FRANK HARBOTTLE.
Major Frank Harbottle, well-known Tasmanian artillery expert and commandant of Claremont military camp in the early days of the war, died at his residence, Parliament-street, Sandy Bay, yesterday afternoon after a long illness. He had a distinguished career as a soldier, and will be remembered by hundreds of men who passed through the camp during the period in which he was in charge. Major Harbottle, a son of Mr. Joseph Harbottle, was born in Hobart in 1872, and was educated at Christ College. On leaving school he entered the civil service, where he remained for two years, when he resigned to follow business pursuits as an accountant and company secretary. He joined the Volunteer Artillery in 1880, and occupied the position of honorary secretary to the Tasmanian Rifle Association for some years, before the war. He invented a mechanical miniature rifle target, which was approved by the British War Office, and also an apparatus explaining gunnery problems and the working of the automatic sight which was adopted by the Australian military authorities. He personally introduced English and rainbow trout into several streams in Tasmania. He served in the European War from 1914 to 1917, the first six months as officer commanding the Australian Garrison Artillery, Fort Nelson, and the following eight months as Camp Commandant. He joined the 2nd Australian Division Field Artillery in September, 1915, was in Egypt from December, 1915, to March, 1916, and from then on in France, where he received the D.S.O. He was gassed at Passchendaele in 1917, and was invalided to Australia the following year. He held the position of censor for Tasmania until the end of the war, and was until the time of his illness Deputy-Commissioner for War Service Homes in Tasmania.
Major Harbottle married a daughter of Major P. W. Grant Pinnock, of Brisbane. He leaves a widow and two children. The funeral will arrive at Cornelian Bay Cemetery at 11 a.m. to-day. Returned soldiers attending are informed
that permission to wear uniform has been obtained.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Frank HARBOTTLE was born in Hobart, Tasmania on 18th November, 1872
His parents were Joseph HARBOTTLE & Mary OLDHAM
He married in Queensland on 5th February 1912 to Olive Grant PINNOCK
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He served with the 2nd Australian Divisional Artillery and the 6th Field Artillery Brigade during WW1 and returned to Australia on 30th January, 1918
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