Frederick Gordon DAVIS

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DAVIS, Frederick Gordon

Service Number:	730
Enlisted:	27 August 1914
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Queenstown, South Australia , 14 November 1893
Home Town:	Goolwa Beach, Alexandrina, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Adelaide, South Australia , 18 February 1975, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Derrick Garden of Remembrance
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World War 1 Service

27 Aug 1914:	Enlisted
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 730, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 730, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 730, 10th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Wounded 730, 10th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Raid on Celtic Wood

730 Private Frederick Gordon Davis a carpenter from Goolwa, South Australia was an original member of the battalion who had served at Gallipoli. During the bloody fighting at Bullecourt in May 1917 he was wounded in action but recovered and rejoined the battalion. On 9 October 1917, he was admitted to 11th Casualty Clearing Station with wounds to his left wrist.

Credible witness statement in Sergeant Norman Page’s Red Cross file. Private Davis. - ‘I saw him [Sergeant Page] killed by a bullet at 5-30.A.M. on the 9th Oct, during a raid at Passchendaele. His body was left in No Man’s land, as we had to retire. I knew him in the coy, he came over on the Ascanius. He came from Murray Bridge, South Australia.

Private Davis recovered and after rejoining, the battalion in early March 1918 was wounded again in the fighting at Jeancourt in September that year.

Returned to Australia in 1919.

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