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FRITH, Edgar Ebenezer
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 1679 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 February 1916, Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ballarat, 25 August 1879 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bootmaker |
| Died: | Glengowrie, , 22 August 1960, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Centennial Park, Pasadena Catholic A, Path AH, Grave 4735 |
| Memorials: |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 8 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide | |
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| 11 Apr 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1679, 50th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1679, 50th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 1679, 50th Infantry Battalion | |
| 15 Dec 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1 |
Personal Stories
Edgar Ebenezer Frith
Son of Henry Frith and Elizabeth Anne Pascoe. Edgar was the eighth child in a family of thirteen children.
His trade was Bootmaker following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
On the 21 August 1907 he married Agnes Mary Matilda Doyle in St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wakefield Street, Adelaide
Two of his sons served in WW2
The licence for Edgar's grave site expired in 2000
Submitted 21 December 2014 by Carol Foster