ANDERSON, Francis
| Service Number: | 6706 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 4 March 1892 |
| Home Town: | Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Horse Collar Maker |
| Died: | Illness, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 29 April 1920, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Tasmania (Hobart) Garden of Remembrance |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6706, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 30 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 6706, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Palermo embarkation_ship_number: A56 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 6706, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Palermo, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Francis Anderson’s mother died when he was only three years of age. His father passed away five years later. He gave his next of kin as his sister, Alberta Anderson.
He served with the 12th Battalion from late 1916 and was wounded in France in during early 1917. It appears he was buried at one point and rescued, but his health was compromised and he was in hospital in England during 1919 when he was invalided back to Australia. He passed away in a military hospital in Launceston without ever having been discharged from the AIF, soon after returning on a hospital ship. The cause of death in his service file is given as mitral disease, a heart condition.
His older brother, 2554 Private Robert Anderson, 4th Pioneer Battalion, was killed in action near Hamel on 6 April 1918.
The oldest brother of the two men, John Anderson of Domain Shipyard, Hobart, Tasmania, gave permission for the authorities to send Francis’s medals to his sister, Alberta.