Frank Horace ALLSHORN

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Service Number:	5
Enlisted:	7 January 1915
Last Rank:	Farrier Quartermaster Sergeant
Last Unit:	13th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Stratford, England, 1872
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not known
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Endocarditis following typhoid, Egypt, 25 February 1916
Cemetery:	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Row D, Grave 332
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

7 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 5, 13th Light Horse Regiment
29 Mar 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Farrier Quartermaster Sergeant, 13th Light Horse Regiment
12 May 1915:	Involvement 5, 13th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
12 May 1915:	Embarked 5, 13th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Persic, Melbourne

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Frank Horace ALLSHORN was born in 1872 in Stratford, England

His parents were Frederick ALLSHORN & Esther HOW

He married Emma Elizabeth SWEENEY in England in 1893

Frank had previously served as a Staff Sergeant in the Essex Territorials before the family emigrated to Australia on the ship Salamis in 1909

His son Frank Horace Frederick ALLSHORN (SN1712) also served in WW1 and returned to Australia in 1919