Fredric George FRIZELL

FRIZELL, Fredric George

Service Number: 509
Enlisted: 5 November 1914, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 6th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Hobart, Tasmania, 12 June 1890
Home Town: Strathfield, Strathfield, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Grazier
Died: Sydney, New South Wales, 28 September 1946, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Burwood Memorial Arch
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World War 1 Service

5 Nov 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 509, Liverpool, New South Wales
21 Dec 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 509, 6th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
21 Dec 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 509, 6th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
15 May 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 509, 6th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli
12 Aug 1915: Wounded 509, Army Pay Corps (AIF), ANZAC / Gallipoli
1 Nov 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 6th Light Horse Regiment
1 Sep 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 6th Light Horse Regiment
19 Sep 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 509, 6th Light Horse Regiment

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Biography

Enlistment date 5 November 1914.

Place of enlistment Liverpool, New South Wales

Rank on enlistment Private

Unit name 6th Light Horse Regiment, C Squadron

AWM Embarkation Roll number 10/11/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A29 Suevic on 21 December 1914
Rank from Nominal Roll Lance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll Australian Army Pay Corps
Fate Returned to Australia 21 May 1919
Discharge date 19 September 1919
Family/military connections Brothers: Captain Malcolm FRIZELL, Australian Army Medical Corps, effective abroad (still overseas); Major Thomas James FRIZELL, 1st Field Ambulance, died of wounds, 2 December 1917.

Other details Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 15 May 1915.

Wounded in action (slightly), Anzac Cove, 12 August 1915 (gun shot wound, thumb, finger, left hand); transferred by HS 'Valdivia' to Malta, 20 August 1915, and admitted to Royal Naval Hospital.

Disembarked Alexandriafrom Malta, 9 October 1915, and marched in to Overseas Base, Mustapha.

Embarked Alexandria for Gallipoli, 18 October 1915.

Appointed Temporary Lance Corporal, 1 November 1915.

Sick, to hospital, 24 November1915 (diarrhoea); transferred by HS 'Glenart Castle' to Malta, 25 November 1915 (dysentery); disembarked Malta, 3 December 1915, and admitted to St Andrew's Hospital. Embarked Malta, 24 March 1916; disembarked Alexandria, 27 March 1916, and admitted to No 3 General Hospital, Cairo (arthritis following dysentery); discharged to Australian Army Pay Corps for duty, 28 March 1916.

Admitted to No 3 Auxiliary Hospital, Cairo, 27 April 1916 (intestinal colic); discharged to duty, 6 May 1916.

Embarked Alexandria, 11 May 1916; disembarked London, England (date not recorded), and attached to AIF Administrative Headquarters.

Married Alice Lillian BROWN, spinster, aged 18, Marylebone Presbyterian Church, London, 23 February 1918.

Granted 75 days' leave with pay in England (Special Leave 1914), 27 January 1919.

Promoted Temporary (Voyage Only) Sergeant, 25 April 1919.

Commenced return to Australia on board HT 'Osterley', 21 May 1919; disembarked Sydney, 7 July 1919; discharged, Sydney, 19 September 1919.

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