Frederick Charles APPLETON MID

APPLETON, Frederick Charles

Service Number: NX14765
Enlisted: 13 May 1940, Haberfield, New South Wales
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion
Born: Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia, 18 October 1907
Home Town: Haberfield, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Ashfield Prep School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Commercial Traveller
Died: Killed in Action, New Guinea, 22 September 1943, aged 35 years
Cemetery: Lae War Cemetery
Plot DD, Row A, Grave 5 Roll of Honour Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Lieutenant, NX14765, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion
13 May 1940: Enlisted Haberfield, New South Wales
13 May 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, NX14765, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion

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Biography

2/13 Battalion

Rank - Lieutenant.

Son of Charles Thomas Henry APPLETON and Elizabeth Campbell McCREDIE who married in Sydney in 1906 

He married Edith Joyce COOPER in Sydney in 1943

His brother Ronald George APPLETON (SN NX14763) also served in WW2 and was a Prisoner of War - discharged in 1945

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He was mentioned in dispatches in Tobruk - 1941