Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

According to my grandmother, Frederick suffered from sever asthma in later years attributed to mustard gas exposure. (probably in WWI)
He served in the Boer war and was wounded in the left shoulder by a large bullet. He returned to Australia carrying an empty shell of the same type that wounded him. It was used as a door stop at my grandmother's house in Bonshaw for many years before disappearing. He apparently said that he was saved from mortal wounding by a large button (??) from an enemy uniform that he had stitched onto the left shoulder (lapel) of his own uniform which deflected the bullet into his shoulder, rather than it passing through his chest.

I cannot verify any of this as my great grandfather has long since passed and my grandmother and her siblings have as well.