HASTINGS, Frederick Alfred Warren
| Service Number: | 7010 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bowden, South Australia, Australia, 6 March 1881 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Contractor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 10 June 1918, aged 37 years |
| Cemetery: |
Beacon Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette II. B. 8. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Jul 1917: | Involvement Private, 7010, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Albany embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
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| 24 Jul 1917: | Embarked Private, 7010, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Albany |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Jeffery Lyons
Frederick Alfred Warren Hastings was born on 6 March 1881 in Bowden, South Australia to Eliza Ann Oyston and Frederick Alfred Hastings. Frederick worked as a contractor and married Edith Mary Eliza Hatton in Perth Western Australia, in 1904 when he was 23 years old.
At age 35 he enlisted in the Australia Imperial Force 3rd September 1916 in Perth, Western Australia and embarked for England on HMAT Port Melbourne (A16) on 23rd July 1917. After training in the 7th Training Battalion at Rollestone he proceeded to France with the 21st Reinforcements to the 28th Battalion.
Private Hastings was killed in action on 10th June 1918 during the attack on Morlancourt, Somme, France, and was buried in the field. His body was later exhumed and re-interred at Beacon Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette France.
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