MCINTOSH, Frederick Richard
Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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Enlisted: | 16 July 1916, Melbourne, Vic. |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 59th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 July 1892 |
Home Town: | Naracoorte, Naracoorte and Lucindale, South Australia |
Schooling: | Scotch College, Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 28 September 1917, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Plot XXV, Row D, Grave No. 17 |
Memorials: | Naracoorte War Memorial, Naracoorte War Memorial, Naracoorte War Memorial, Naracoorte and District Town Hall Honour Board WW1 |
World War 1 Service
16 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 59th Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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2 Oct 1916: | Involvement 59th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
2 Oct 1916: | Embarked 59th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
8 May 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 59th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second) | |
15 Jul 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 59th Infantry Battalion, Belgium | |
26 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 59th Infantry Battalion, Polygon Wood, GSW to chest and shoulder. Evacuated to 3rd Canadian CCS at Lijssenthoek, where he died of his wounds on 28 September 1917. | |
28 Sep 1917: | Involvement Lieutenant, 59th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 59th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1917-09-28 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Prior to enlisting, Frederick Rishard McIntosh played 25 games (1913-14) for the University FC, and 14 games (1915) for the Essendon FC in the VFL.
He was wounded in action at Polygon Wood, 26 September 1917 (gun shot wound, shoulder and chest), and admitted to 6th Australian Field Ambulance, and then transferred to 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station at Lijssenthoek, where he later died of his wounds on 28 September 1917.