Frank LAYCOCK

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Service Number:	4
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	3rd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 18 March 1869
Home Town:	Norwood (SA), South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Book Seller
Died:	7 August 1936, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Payneham Cemetery, South Australia Section WE, plot 0054 He is remembered in the SA Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Sergeant, 4, 1st South Australian Mounted Rifles
1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Lieutenant, 8th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse

28 Nov 1914:	Involvement Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Eastern embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
28 Nov 1914:	Embarked Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps , SS Eastern, Sydney
Date unknown:	Wounded

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Previously served 11 years B Company, 2nd Regiment and C Company, 1st Battalion.

Also served with 8th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse.

Served with the AN&MEF in WW1, was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain then captured by the Germans; returned to Australia 1919.