FRYER, Edwin Henry
| Service Number: | 600 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 August 1916, South African War (Australian Mounted Rifles) |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Wheeo, New South Wales, Australia, March 1883 |
| Home Town: | Bellingen, Bellingen, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Wounds, 2nd Field Ambulance's dressing station at Neuve Eglise, Belgium, 18 January 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium Plot I, Row C, Grave No. 12 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 600, 13th Machine Gun Company, South African War (Australian Mounted Rifles) | |
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| 14 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 600, 13th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 14 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 600, 13th Machine Gun Company, RMS Osterley, Melbourne | |
| 7 Oct 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Machine Gun Company | |
| 18 Jan 1918: | Involvement Private, 600, 3rd Machine Gun Company, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 600 awm_unit: 3rd Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-01-18 |
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From AWM History / Summary
Born in Maclean, New South Wales, Edwin Henry Fryer was employed as a grocer when enlisted in the AIF on 4 August 1916. He had previously served in the Boer War as a trooper in the NSW Mounted Rifles, and for 6 years in the Citizens Military Forces with the NSW Scottish Rifles. Fryer was posted a private, service number 600, to the 10th Reinforcements for the 13th Machine Gun Company. He sailed from Melbourne for service on the Western Front in February 1917, aboard RMS Osterley.
After further training in England and France Fryer joined No 1 Section, 3rd Machine Gun Company in October 1917. He died of wounds received at Hun's Walk near Messines, Belgium on 18 January 1918. A fellow machine gunner wrote: 'He had a leg shot off, and the other broken in 3 places, and was also hit about the body. He was conscious when I saw him. He was speaking about his wife and child [Janet, and five year old Edwin]. What would happen to them etc.' Fryer was taken to the 2nd Field Ambulance's dressing station at Neuve Eglise but died there that night. He was 34. He is buried at the Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Ypres.
The commemorative plaque was sent to his widow, Janet Emily Fryer, in October 1922.
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