Frederick John NEIGHBOUR

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NEIGHBOUR, Frederick John

Service Number:	782
Enlisted:	13 May 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	18th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, 1892
Home Town:	Redfern, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway Guard
Died:	Suicide - bullet wound to the chest, Waterloo, New South Wales, Waterloo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 8 December 1915
Cemetery:	Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium Church of England Section, Row CCC, Grave 162 Rev. F.C. Williams officiated and the funeral director was Charles Kinsela Commemorated with a plaque in the NSW Garden of Remembrance, Rookwood Necropolis, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

13 May 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 782, 18th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
25 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 782, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
25 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 782, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Husband of Edith Maud Neighbour of 33 Walkre Street, Redfern, NSW later of George Street, Waterloo, NSW. Father of Frederick William Neighbour and Andrew Phillip Neighbour

3 September 1915 - returned to Australia on board HS Ulysses for discharge as medically unfit due to weakness of his left knee

Medals: 1914-5 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Apprenticed to Golman & Sons of Sydney, Bootmakers, for 3 years

Place of death was 43 George Street, Waterloo, NSW

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