Frank FAINT

Badge Number: S21000, Sub Branch: Hindmarsh
S21000

FAINT, Frank

Service Numbers: 92, 92A
Enlisted: 21 July 1915, Keswick, South Australia
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 10th Infantry Battalion
Born: New Hindmarsh, SA, 30 December 1897
Home Town: Hindmarsh, Charles Sturt, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Leather Dresser
Died: Natural Causes, Daw Park, SA, 20 February 1969, aged 71 years
Cemetery: Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
RSL Wall 130 Niche G10
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

21 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 92, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Keswick, South Australia
18 Nov 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 92, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
18 Nov 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 92, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
11 Nov 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 92A, 10th Infantry Battalion
18 Oct 1919: Discharged AIF WW1
Date unknown: Wounded 92, 10th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown: Involvement 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix)
Date unknown: Involvement 10th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Thomas FAINT and Sarah Alice nee NICHOLSON, Jervois Avenue, New Hindmarsh, South Australia

Enlisted into the 32nd Battalion, A Company

Assigned to the 10th Battalion in Egypt

Captured PoW at Pozieres 

Survived the War

 

Served in the VDC WW2

 

Resident at 8 Morrell Street Allenby Gardens

An RSL Member for 50 years until his death in 1969