SAVILL, Frederick Herbert
| Service Numbers: | 220, 825 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 1 January 1880 |
| Home Town: | Lismore, Lismore Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Linesman |
| Died: | Malaria whilst a Prisoner of War, WW1, Bora, Turkey, 9 November 1917, aged 37 years |
| Cemetery: |
Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery The group of POWs who died were originally buried at Midge Cemetery, Asia Minor, and exhumed in 1927 for reburial at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq. Though unidentified each individual soldier is provided a separate plot with individual headstone memorial. Plot: XXI. V. 39. |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 220, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 220, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 220, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 825, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 825, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Also served in WW1, Sergeant S.N. 825, 1st Anzac Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps AIF. During this service he was taken POW by Turkish Forces in 1917 and died while in captivity at Bora, see National Archives Australia WW1 service record p. 33 & 34. He noted on his Attestation Form his previous service in the QIB, South African (Boer) War.
POWs who died at Bora were interred at Midge Cemetery, Asia Minor. They appear to have been in unmarked graves and were exhumed in 1927 and reinterred at the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq. Correspondence to relatives indicate while individuals could not be formally identified at the time, individual grave sites with separate memorial headstones were provided in their honour. He was "mentioned in dispatches" in Dec 1916.
When Frederick Herbert Savill enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB (Boer War) and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his father W. W. Savill, Byron Bay, NSW.
Frederick Herbert Saville (Savill) was born in 1880 at Lismore, NSW, a son to William and Mary Ann Saville. He married Ethel May Gray in 1903 and they had 2 children while living at Murwillimbah, NSW. His wife passed in 1913.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 498; National Archives Australia- WW1 service records; Australian Boer War Memorial Database- Bio).
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