NUNN , Frederick
| Service Number: | 57895 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 April 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 5 December 1895 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal Miner |
| Died: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 1 July 1931, aged 35 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ipswich Dinmore Roll of Honour, Ipswich Men and Women of Ipswich WW1 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Apr 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 57895, 1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements | |
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| 17 Jul 1918: | Involvement Private, 57895, 1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jul 1918: | Embarked Private, 57895, 1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 1 Feb 1919: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
| 7 Nov 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 57895, 14th Infantry Battalion, per Marathon II to Sydney, NSW | |
| 25 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 57895, 14th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Frederick was the sixth of nine children of Walter Nunn (born 1866 in Ipswich, QLD) and Elizabeth Ann Thompson (born 1864 in Ipswich, QLD). Walter - a Coal Miner - married Elizabeth in 1887 in Ipswich, QLD, and worked as a Coal Miner until his death in 1940.
Fred was a Coal Miner at Dinmore, Ipswich, QLD when he enlisted in the AIF in 1918. He served as a Private (Service No:57895) with 5th Reinforcement, 15th and 14th Infantry Battalions in France. Fred was married in May 1919 in Lanarkshire, Scotland to Euphemia Reid Wallace Brown (born 1896 in Lanarkshire, Scotland). He returned to Australia in November 1919 and was Discharged in January 1920.
Fred and Euphemia settled at Dinmore, Ipswich in QLD where Fred worked as a Coal Miner until his death in 1931. Euphemia remarried in 1938 and died in 1986.
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