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 Frank Maddeford

Frank Maddeford was born in Norwood, SA Adelaide on March 27, 1875. He worked as a cook and lived on 39 Washington Street, Glenelg, south Australia, with his wife, Mrs. E Maddeford. He was 5 foot 5 inches tall, and weighed 140lbs. He had blue eyes, and brown hair, and was a follower of the Church of England. He enlisted on the 22nd of October 1914, and was enlisted at the rank of Sergeant, in the 9th Light Horse Regiment. He embarked when his was 39 years old. Maddeford had no pervious military service. The Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A10 Karroo on the 11th of February 1915. 

The 9th Light Horse Regiment trained in Melbourne between October 1914 and February 1915. Approximately three-quarters of the regiment came from South Australia and the other quarter from Victoria. As part of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade, it sailed from Melbourne on 11th February and arrived in Egypt on 14th March 1915. The light horse was considered unsuitable for the initial operations at Gallipoli, but was eventually deployed without their horses. The 3rd Light Horse Brigade landed in late May 1915 and was attached to the New Zealand and Australian Division. The 9th was fortunate to be the reserve regiment for the Brigade's disastrous attack on the Nek of Gallipoli on the 7th August, but subsequently suffered 50 per cent casualties attacking on the Hill on the 27th August. Then on the 6th of June 1915 Frank Maddeford suffered a shrapnel injury, and was later sent to a hospital in Gallipoli, in the November of 1915. On August 1917 he was discharged from the hospital, and then returned to duty with the 9th Light horse regiment. On the 8th February of 1919 he was sent home to Australia. On the 5th of March 1919 he returned.

Frank Maddeford received many medals, which are: The British War Medal, The Star Medal, and the Victory Medal. Frank Maddeford died on the 9th of August 1946 and was buried in the Donald Cemetery.