Abraham FIFOOT (TIFOOT)

FIFOOT (TIFOOT), Abraham

Service Number: 5378
Enlisted: 6 August 1915, Claremont, Tasmania
Last Rank: Gunner
Last Unit: 3rd Field Artillery Brigade
Born: Bristol, England, 29 November 1866
Home Town: Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Seaman
Died: Natural Causes, Bristol, England, 10 December 1944, aged 78 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

6 Aug 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Claremont, Tasmania
27 Sep 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 5378, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , Enlistment/Embarkation WW1,

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27 Sep 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 5378, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
27 Aug 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 5378, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade
27 Aug 1917: Discharged AIF WW1

Merchant Navy and Australian Antarctic Exploration

Before his service in World War 1, Abraham was working as an Able Seaman aboard the Steam Vessel 'Port Morant'. He is listed in Merchant Navy log books from the year 1901. His attestation papers mention 10 years of service in the Navy.

In 1911 he was employed as a cook on the Steam Yacht 'Aurora' on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition. He was part of the crew that took the three landing parties from Tasmania to Macquarie Island and the two stations on continental Antarctica.

It seems that after the Antarctic expedition, Abraham stayed in Australia, owing to the fact he attested in Claremont, Tasmania in 1915.

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Biography

Embarkation Roll (static.awm.gov.au) mistakenly lists Surname as T I F O O T

Enlisted at age 49 years

Discharged from Service (in England) on 27 Aug 1917