LAMPLUGH, Frederick Flint
| Service Number: | 1066 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, 28 May 1888 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | St James Grammar School, Melbourne |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Illness, Thames, Waikato, New Zealand, 26 February 1948, aged 59 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 21 Oct 1914: | Involvement Sergeant, 1066, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Oct 1914: | Embarked Sergeant, 1066, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne | |
| 11 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Morinda embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 11 Sep 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, SS Morinda, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Frederick Flint LAMPLUGH was born in Hawthorn, Victoria on 28th May, 1888
His parents were Harry Welby LAMPLUGH & Ellen Jane DONNELLY
He married Hilda M. SEATON in England in 1917 (Registered in Wandsworth) & 2nd marriage in New Zealand in 1938 to Alice Evelyn Flyger MARTIN )formerly married to GOODREDS and later married to DAVIS
Frederick returned to Australia on 21st July, 1917
He died on 26th February, 1948 in Waikato, New Zealand (Totara Memorial Park)
His brother Welby Jackson LAMPLUGH (SN274) was Killed in Action in Belgium on 4th October, 1917 and another brother Charles Francis Xavier LAMPLUGH (SN7515) died of Heart Failure on 12th March, 1918
Biography
"AUSTRALIAN LIEUTENANT FINED FOR ASSAULT.
LONDON, Thursday Night. — Frederick Lamplugh, second-lieutenant in the Australian Forces, was fined forty shillings for assaulting an Epping Forest keeper. Lamplugh declared that he acted in self-defence." - from the Launceston Daily Telegraph 11 Nov 1916 (nla.gov.au)
"LAMPLUGH.— In loving memory of Sergeant Welby Jackson, killed in action, 4th October, 1917, loving brother of Lilly.
A man not of words, but of action, One of God's bravest and best; He died an Australian hero, Fighting for freedom and rest. -Inserted by his affectionate sister, Lilly, and brother-in-law.
LAMPLUGH.— In loving memory of my dearly loved son, Sergeant Welby Jackson, killed in action in Belgium, 4th October, 1917, brother of Sergeant Charles Lamplugh, died on service in France on 12th March. Brothers united. An Anzac hero.
God is kind, he gives me strength To bear my heavy cross; He is the only one who knows My loneliness and loss. — Inserted by his loving mother and brother, Lieut. F. F. Lamplugh (returned)." - from the Melbourne Age 04 Oct 1918 (nla.gov.au)
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