NAYLOR, Frederick Alexander
| Service Number: | 3150 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 40th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia, 29 July 1898 |
| Home Town: | Penguin, Central Coast, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bank clerk |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 28 March 1918, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Penguin to the Great War , Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3150, 40th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 3150, 40th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 3150, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Private Fred A. Naylor, worked in the Commercial Bank of Tasmania Limited, Penguin, prior to enlisting. He was the youngest of six sons of the late Mr. Henry Naylor, of Penguin, a retired Indian civil servant, who all volunteered for active service, and went to the front. The father passed away in Penguin during 1914.
Urmston Naylor, Ben Naylor, and Fred Naylor, were all killed; Ira Naylor, returned to Australia incapacitated from gunshot wound in the side, received at Gallipoli towards the end of the campaign; Theo Naylor, enlisted in 1914, fought right through the Gallipoli campaign and was twice evacuated wounded; likewise, Henry Naylor, enlisted in August 1914 and returned to Australia after four years of service. A sister of the above Naylor brothers, also lost her husband, Mr. H. J. V. P. Dove who volunteered for active service in 1916 and died of illness in hospital, England during June 1917.
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