LIGGINS, Frederick Pontifex
| Service Number: | 1 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer II |
| Last Unit: | 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | England, 1844 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Natural Causes, 30 April 1932, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW AB - Anglican FM B, Position 1006 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Warrant Officer II, 1, 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
LIGGINS-PHILLIPS.-April 22, at St. Barnabas' Church, by the Rev. H. Martin, Frederick Pontifex Liggins, of London, to Mary Elizabeth, eldst daughter of the late Thomas Phillips, of Swansea, South Wales.
Mr F P Liggins, The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 2 May 1932, Page 11
“Mr Frederick P. Liggins, whose remains were interred in the Church of England Cemetery at Botany on Saturday, was 88 years of age, and was a native of England. In early life he saw military service in England and India and went through the Zulu War in 1879.
Arriving in Australia about 1881, he was appointed staff instructor to the militia, and went away with the Soudan Contingent in 1885. Later he took part in the Jameson Raid in South Africa, and on the outbreak of the Boer War saw service with forces against the Boers, being wounded at Diamond Hill.
During the Great War he was a commissioned officer at Holsworthy camp for the internment of aliens. He was a holder of a number of war medals with bars.”
He was severely injured on June 11, 1900 at the Eerste Fabriekan (Hatherley) at Diamond Hill.
In July 1928 Mr. F. P. Liggins, who has been appointed country representative in Western Australia by the Perth branch of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association, is at present visiting Kalgoorlie and intends to remain on the goldfields about a week.
The mourners were Mr Walter Watts (son in-law), Mr Geoige Liggins (nephew), and Mr Harold Elkln (grand-nephew) The united Imperial Navy and Aimv Veterans' Association of New South Wales was represented by the president (Mr W A Matthews), and the South African Soldiers' Association by its president, Mr H Blunden.
LIGGINS.—The Relatives and Friends of the late Mr. FREDERICK PONTIFEX LIGGINS are kindly informed that his Funeral will leave the Private Mortuary Chapel of Mrs. P. Kirby and Son, Ltd., 265 Elizabeth-street, Sydney, THIS SATURDAY, at 2.30 p.m., for the Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood.
Mrs. P. KIRBY and SON, LTD.,
Motor Funeral Directors.
'Phone, M2221-2. 265 Elizabeth-street, Sydney.
LIGGINS.—UNITED IMPERIAL NAVY and ARMY VETERANS' ASSOCIATION.—Members requested to attend the Funeral of MAJOR LIGGINS; to leave Kirby's Parlours, 2.30, THIS DAY, for Botany
Cemetery. W. A. MATTHEWS, J.P., President., J. R. MACDONALD, J.P., Secretary.
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