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Son of Frederick Bury MCINTOSH and Pamela Pascoe McINTOSH nee POOLE

UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY

The late Lieut. F. R. Mcintosh.
Lieut. Fred. R. McIntosh, whose death from wounds received at the front was reported in our last issue, came to Narracoorte with his stepfather (Rev. R. W. McLean) 10 years ago when a boy of 14.

He  continued his education at St. Andrew's College and later at the High School. There he passed the junior public examination, and the same year gained a scholarship under the Allan Bequest. Then he proceeded to the Scotch College, Melbourne, where he studied for two years and passed, the senior public examination. He won distinction in the sporting life of the College. He pulled in the College  crew of 1912. He also represented his College in all its matches with other schools, both on the football field and the running track the same year. When he left College be played League football as an  amateur with the University Club until its disbandment, and then with Essendon.

He was engaged in clerical pursuits when the war broke ont, and an accident upon the football field and subsequent  operation prevented his getting away with his friends of the University football team, who went with the first division.

A year afterwards he passed the doctor, and after a year at Seymour,  Broadmeadows, Castlemaine, etc., he received his commission and went away on October 2, 1916, in charge of the 6th Reinforcements of the 59th Battalion. He spent three months in England, landed  in France in February, was through the great offensive on the Somme, taking part in the battles of Bullecourt, Bapaume, and other engagements of that stirring period.

The last letter from him was  dated August 1st. He was then in billets with his company, but expected to take part in a new movement at an early date. A cablegram was received from him on September 26th which conveyed the  impression that he was in London, or expected to be in London very soon. However, on Monday an official intimation came through that he had died from wounds on September 28th, and the presumption is that he fell with the Victorians who gave their lives in the great battle that raged around Polygon Woood from September 25th to the 28th.

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.