MEHAN, Frank
| Service Number: | 3680 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 June 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia, 6 August 1899 |
| Home Town: | Mayfield East, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wheeler |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 18 September 1918, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension Plot I, Row A, Grave No. 15 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Jun 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3680, 56th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 31 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 3680, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Oct 1917: | Embarked Private, 3680, 56th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 17 Mar 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 13th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
105 years ago today, on the 18th September 1918, Private Francis Anson A Mehan, referred to as Frank, 13th Battalion (Reg No-3680), wheeler from Henson Avenue, Mayfield East, New South Wales, was Killed in Action attacking the Hindenburg Line, age 19 years 1 month. Cause of death not stated.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Raymond Terrace, New South Wales on the 6th August 1899 to Francis John (Frank, died tragically on the 30.3.1917, age 45) and Mary Agnes Mehan (mother of 11 children, remarried 1926, Wickham, N.S.W. to Charles H Kimber, died 17.3.1965, age?, Wyong, N.S.W., sleeping at CATHOLIC 2-62. 2) of 5 Coal Street, Islington, New South Wales (1917) and Maitland Road, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1918) and "Frankey", 64 Fawcett Street, Mayfield, N.S.W., Frank enlisted on the 30th June 1917 with the 56th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A14 Euripides on the 31st October 1917.
Admitted to hospital 30.5.1918 (pyrexia or trench fever).
Frank is resting at Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot I Row A Grave 15.
Place of Association – Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Mehan’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Memorial Gates, Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name possibly inscribed on the Tighes Hill-Australian Holy Catholic Guild Roll of Honour, whereabouts unknown.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Mehan gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of Frank for God, King & Country. CATHOLIC 1-02. 38.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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