GARTH, Frank
| Service Number: | 2298 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Dover, Kent, England, July 1898 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Eglixion Rd School Kent England |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 10 December 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mount Lawley - Inglewood War Memorial , North Perth Congretational Church HR, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2298, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2298, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Wandilla, Fremantle | |
| 10 Dec 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 2298, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2298 awm_unit: 24 Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1916-12-10 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Father GARTH, Serjt. Thomas James, 782. 28th Battalion killed in action 3rd/6th Nov., 1916. Age 49.
2298 Gunner Frank Garth of the 24th Field Artillery Brigade, was killed in action on the10th December 1916, also at Flers. Like his father he has no known grave; both are remembered in the Australian National Memorial at Villers Bretonneux in France.
Frank served on Gallipoli with the 16th Battalion, and was wounded in the left knee by a bomb fragment on the 2nd August, 1915, and evacuated to Egypt. He then transferred to the 112th Battery of the Australian Field Artillery. Frank Garth was only 18 years and 4 months at the time of his death, inferring that he may have enlisted at the age of 16 years and 10 months, in June 1915.