PARRY, Frederick
| Service Number: | 320 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 29th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Brunswick, Moreland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Plasterer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 19 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery Plot II, Row D, Grave No 4 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Brunswick Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 320, Depot Battalion | |
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| 10 Nov 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 320, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 320, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 320, 29th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
320 Private Frederick Parry, 29th Battalion and his brother 1211 Pte Reuben Parry of the same unit went missing on the night of 19 July 1916. According to Reuben's later report to the Red Cross the two met up close to the German lines and they decided that the severely wounded Frederick, who was bleeding badly, should try to return to the Allied lines. Reuben would stay with the remains of his unit and try to carry on but he was was captured shortly after and Frederick was never seen again. Later that year Frederick's family learned via the Red Cross that the Germans had recovered his body and had given him a Christian burial. His identity disc was returned to the family in 1917. In 2010 his remains were recovered from an unmarked mass grave and formally identified by the Fromelles Joint Identification Board. Pte Parry was then reburied at the new Commonwealth War Cemetery at Pheasant Wood.
Their father, 53 year old 14827 Sergeant George John Parry, a railway employee from Brunswick, enlisted barely a month after his two sons went missing from Fromelles.
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