SPARK, Alexander Francis Stanley
| Service Number: | 8946 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1 |
| Born: | Cassilis, 23 October 1882 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Randwick, 12 July 1943, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Section 09, grave 2941 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 8946, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF | |
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| 16 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 8946, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 8946, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney | |
| 20 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, Taken on strength in Egypt | |
| 23 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, Ongoing asthma and bronchitis. Embarked HS Kanowna and returned to Sydney from Suez, arriving on 26 October 2016 | |
| 7 Mar 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 8946, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, Medically discharged due to asthma, chronic bronchitis and emphysema |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Spark
Frank Spark was born on 23 October 1882 in Cassilis, a country town in NSW west of Muswellbrook. He had an older sister and 2 younger brothers. His father was manager of the local branch of The Australian Joint Stock Bank. In 1889 when Frank was aged 7, the family moved to Sydney, living in Randwick, Newtown and Marrickville. At this time his father was accountant for Elliott Brothers, a pharmaceutical and medical instrument manufacturing company in Balmain.
Frank became a carpenter and was living with his father in Petersham when he enlisted in the AIF in June 1915. He married Margaret Adeline (May) Lomas in January 1916 at Woollahra. They were living at 12 Mclean St Paddington when he embarked for Egypt to serve as a stretcher bearer during WW1.
After being medically discharged from the AIF he continued to suffer from chronic respratory infections. From 1921 to 1925 he was farming at Ooma, west of Cowra.
Frank and May moved to Concord in 1927, living with May's brother during the difficult years of the Depression.
They had one son, born in 1920
Frank died on 12 July 1943 from chronic bronchitis and emphysema. A WW1 headstone marks his grave at Rookwood Cemetery.
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