JOHNS, Frank Morrison
| Service Number: | 894 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 December 1916, Perth, WA |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Railway Unit (AIF) |
| Born: | Hotham Heights, Vic., 30 May 1875 |
| Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | North Melbourne, Vic. |
| Occupation: | Locomotive Driver |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Bayswater City, WA, 10 August 1967, aged 92 years |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Anglican Section 2A Grave 0143A |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 894, Railway Unit (AIF), Perth, WA | |
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| 29 Jan 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 894, Railway Unit (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jan 1917: | Embarked Corporal, 894, Railway Unit (AIF), HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Corporal Frank Morrison Johns (894) was born and educated at North Melbourne. He is 45 years of age and is a son of the late Samuel and Ellen Johns (nee Wiggins). He was married in 1900 to Georgina Alice Hide, daughter of the late Samuel and Sarah Hide. They have one child, Elsie Doris Johns. He left Western Australia on the A28 (Miltiades) on 29th January, 1917, with the first Railway unit (West Australian section) to leave Australia. After a short period of training in camp, he left for France. His company was operating on the Western Front from May, 1917, until April 1918. He was attached to the 53rd Battery, an English company; at Ypres for two and it half months; also on the Somme Front for some months. He left England for Australia on the Konegin Louise in June, 1919.
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