Francis (Frank) CARR

Francis (Frank) CARR Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

CARR, Francis

Service Number:	3720
Enlisted:	11 September 1915, Place of Enlistment, Rockhampton, Queensland.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 8 September 1897
Home Town:	South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Natural Causes , Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 21 October 1956, aged 59 years
Cemetery:	North Rockhampton Cemetery, Qld R.C. Section C, Row P, Grave No 52.
Memorials:	Annerley Stephens Shire Council Residents Honour Board 1, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 1 Service

11 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3720, 15th Infantry Battalion, Place of Enlistment, Rockhampton, Queensland.
30 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 3720, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
30 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 3720, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney
29 Sep 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Machine Gun Company
11 Apr 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3720, 4th Machine Gun Company, Reported Missing. GSW to left Shoulder.
9 May 1917:	Imprisoned Captured Riencourt, Interred Soltau,Hanover, Germany. Loss of left arm from Wounding.
10 Apr 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3720, 4th Machine Gun Company, Repatriated to Australia.

Tale of four Brothers

Hi my Name is Kirsty Hjort and i am the great grand niece of this brave man. This is for any future family members wishing to know information in the future.

Not only was he a POW but he was also wounded and there is correspondences from the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Files which the Australian war memorial has an online link. Frank as he was known was 1 of four brothers who went to war.

they are as follows :

Arthur Oliver Car Service No: 172A - 14 infantry battalion (my great grand father)
Albert Victor Carr service No: 3716 -12th field ambulance
Norman George Carr service no: 2795 - 5th Machine Gun Battalion

Happy reading they have a very interesting history.

Love proud honored and humbled family.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia