Frank Humphrey MAKIN

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MAKIN, Frank Humphrey

Service Number:	149
Enlisted:	12 February 1915
Last Rank:	Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit:	6th Field Ambulance
Born:	Gawler, South Australia, 25 November 1875
Home Town:	North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Trinity College, Melbourne, Victoria, Austrlia
Occupation:	Medical student
Died:	North Adelaide, SA, 20 September 1961, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Privately Cremated
Memorials:	Gawler Council Gawler Men Who Answered the Call WW1 Roll of Honor, Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board, North Adelaide Christ Church Honour Board

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Trooper, 149, 2nd South Australian Mounted Rifles

World War 1 Service

12 Feb 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Major, 8th Field Ambulance
4 Jun 1915:	Involvement Major, 6th Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ajana embarkation_ship_number: A31 public_note: ''
4 Jun 1915:	Embarked Major, 6th Field Ambulance, HMAT Ajana, Melbourne
18 Sep 1917:	Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant Colonel
Date unknown:	Wounded 6th Field Ambulance

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Joined the second South Australia Contingent as assistant to Lieutenant Surgeon Jermyn

In WW1 enlisted as a Major with 6th Field Ambulance, landed at Gallipoli 28 April

Appointed Lieutenant Colonel 1917

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Son of Louisa Caroline (nee Duffield) & Frank Makin.

Husband of Ivah Gladys Makin. Died 1999.
He was a Physician prior to enlisting on 12 February 1915. He served as a Major with the Australian Army Medical Corps, 6th Field Ambulance.
He returned to Australia in 1918 and declared medically unfit.

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