CASHMAN, Frederick Arthur
| Service Number: | 725 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Normanton, Qld., 1895 |
| Home Town: | Five Dock, Canada Bay, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St Joseph's College Hunters Hill |
| Occupation: | Grazier |
| Died: | 18 February 1976, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Normanton Carpentaria Shire Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 725, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 725, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 725, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
PRIVATE CASHMAN.
Mr. and Mrs. Cashman, of Carmsley Fairlight-street, Five Dock have been advised by the Defence authorities that their son, Frederick A. Cashman, who is attached to the First Expeditionary Force is now ill in Malta Hospital. Private Cashman is 20 years of age. He was educated at St. Joseph's College Hunter's Hill and was lieutenant in charge of the boys at school there. He was a member of the Coronation Contingent that visited England in 1911 and while there was presented by Lord Roberts with a bookcase containing an autograph photograph of the General and about 20 choice books, two of which were written by Lord Roberts himself. When Cashman enlisted he was following agricultural pursuits.
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