Frank Osborne HANNAN

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Service Number:	1719
Enlisted:	15 June 1915, Place of enlistment - Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sawyers Valley, Western Australia, 4 June 1895
Home Town:	Donnybrook, Donnybrook-Balingup, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	War Causes, 21 March 1928, aged 32 years, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Wesleyan Area, Section EA, Grave 0432
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Donnybrook Preston Road Board

15 Jun 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1719, 28th Infantry Battalion, Place of enlistment - Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
23 Jul 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1719, 28th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on HMAT 'A64' Demosthenes from Fremantle on 23rd July 1915.
29 Jul 1916:	Imprisoned He was wounded in the left arm and back and captured on the Somme, on 29 July 1916. He was interned as a POW at Bergkaserne, Munster until being transferred to Switzerland, Hotel Eiger Murren on 14 December 1916 and later repatriated to England on 11 September 1917.
29 Jul 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1719, 28th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wounds to both arms and back, fractured humerus of left arm. From medical report "Hit on outer side of upper left are - missile emerged below inner border of biceps, missing median and ulnar nerves. Fracture of humerus about 3" above elbow".
21 Dec 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1719, 28th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on HMAT 'A34' Persic from England, disembarking Fremantle 4th February 1918.
16 Apr 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1719, 28th Infantry Battalion
13 Jun 1918:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Enlisted for Home Service
8 Aug 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Discharged, services no longer required

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Son of James Charles and Elizabeth Ann HANNAN, Donnybrook, Western Australia.

Husband of M HANNAN, 176 Brown Street, East Perth Western Australia.