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PORTER, Frank Edward
| Service Number: | 761 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 December 1914, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Dublin, South Australia, 5 July 1896 |
| Home Town: | Dublin, Mallala, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Dublin School |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Accidently shot (whilst out rabbit shooting with mates), Hamley Bridge, South Australia, 25 April 1937, aged 40 years |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Dublin WW1 & WW2 Roll of Honor, Dublin War Memorial, Mallala Grace Plains Sunday School Pictorial Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 8 Feb 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 761, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Pera embarkation_ship_number: A4 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 761, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Pera, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 761 |
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"RETURNED SOLDIER'S TRAGIC DEATH. Shot While Hunting Game
Frank Edward Porter, 40, employed as a telegraph linesman at Jamestown, was fatally shot on Saturday, near Hamley Bridge. Porter and his wife and two children went for a walk, Porter taking a .22 rifle. He left his wife, and went alone in search of game, and was to have met her at the other side of a hillock. Mrs. Forter waited, but when her husband did not arrive, she decided that he had gone in another direction, and she and the children returned home, expecting to find him there. Shortly afterwards she spoke to neighbors, who made a search. At 8.30 p.m. Porter was found unconscious by Mrs. Edith Sparrow. Porter was taken to the Riverton Hospital, with a bullet wound in the head, and he died at 3 a.m. on Sunday. Porter, who was a returned soldier, and had intended to take part in the Anzac Day celebrations both in Hamley Bridge and Adelaide, was buried in the Soldiers' Cemetery, West terrace." - from the Adelaide Chronicle 06 May 1937 (nla.gov.au)
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