Frank Birt (Bert) TREVENEN

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TREVENEN, Frank Birt (Bert)

Service Numbers:	113, 3315
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Payneham, South Australia , 19 August 1876
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	St Peter's College, Adelaide South Australia
Occupation:	Iron Monger's Assistant
Died:	1961, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board, St Peters Heroes of the Great War Honour Roll

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Trooper, 113, 4th Imperial Bushmen

World War 1 Service

22 May 1917:	Involvement Private, 3315, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: ''
22 May 1917:	Embarked Private, 3315, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Port Sydney, Fremantle

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

- Researched and written by Anthony Stimson -

Tpr. Frank Birt Trevenen, 23 and 5’9”, was an ironmonger’s assistant and single when he enlisted. Like three other men in this photograph he was educated at Adelaide’s St. Peter’s College. After leaving school he was employed as a shop assistant at Marshall’s Emporium, Adelaide’s largest department store, through his friendship with Jimmy Marshall, the owner’s son and a school friend from Saints. The Trevenen family in Australia website says: ‘He and Jimmy were members of the Adelaide Hunt Club and both had “flash race horses.”

In later life Frank told his kids that “when he was young he really lived.” He was handsome, had lots of friends, was a great dancer and an excellent horseman.’ He was also a champion cyclist.

Trevenen’s tour of duty seems to have been uneventful. After the war he moved to Western Australia to join his brother William who had a butchering business at Kookynie, and after marrying took up land near Narrogin in the wheat belt. He enlisted there, aged 40, on 9 November 1916, and served as a trooper in the 10th Light Horse, returning home in 1919.

The Trevenen family history website says he was in the charge at Beersheba. He died in 1961. -

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