FIRMSTON, Frederick Christopher
| Service Number: | V84595 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 2 January 1885 |
| Home Town: | St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Illness, General Military Hospital at Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 19 September 1943, aged 58 years |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement V84595 | |
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| 8 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, V84595 |
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From How We Served
The final resting place for;- V84595 Sergeant Frederick Christopher Firmston of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and St. Kilda, Victoria had already served in the trenches of Northern France and Belgium with the 2nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery of the 1st British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.
Following his official discharge from the British Army, Frederick returned to Australia in the decades of peace that followed the end of hostilities in November 1918.
With the outbreak of a Second World War, Frederick, now employed as a clerk, presented himself for enlistment with the Australian Military Forces on the 8th of June 1940 and was allocated to the staff of the 2nd Recruit Reception Depot.
After a short period of illness, Frederick was transferred to the staff of the 107th Convalescent Depot, then based a Broadmeadows, Victoria, and by the 14th of July 1941, he was transferred again, and was taken on strength with the 5th Works and Parks Company.
Frederick remained on strength with this Unit before being detached for duty with the Engineers Base Workshops, with which he was promoted to Sergeant. Aside from further bouts of sickness, and followed by periods spent on convalescence, Frederick’s service would be continuous and by the start of April 1943 he would be taken on strength with the 6th Works and Parks Company.
Due to further sickness, Frederick would be away from his Unit for hospitalization and further convalescence, after which he was returned to duty. On the 29th of August 1943 Frederick was again evacuated due to sickness and was admitted into the General Military Hospital at Caulfield, Victoria where on the 18th of September he finally succumbed to sickness at the premature age of 58.
Following his passing Sergeant Frederick Firmston, a veteran of the ‘Great War’, and who had chosen to enlist with the Australian Military Forces so as to serve his country due to a Second World War, was formally laid to rest within Springvale War Cemetery, Victoria.
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