Francis (Frank) TAMBLYN

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Service Numbers:	30, 221
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse
Born:	Southport, Queensland, Australia, 28 July 1878
Home Town:	Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Shot in the right chest and left forearm by machine gun fire on the Somme (1916); went back to NZ; Died of the Spanish Flu, Raetihi, Marlborough, New Zealand, 19 November 1918, aged 40 years
Cemetery:	Raetihi Cemetery, Raetihi, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand
Memorials:

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 30, 2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry
1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 221, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse

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