Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 6522
Place of Birth: Sheffield England
Address: 140 Silas Street, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Ruby Hallam
Enlistment Date: 20 June 1916
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 21st Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 27
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Beef Lumper
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 4126
Place of Birth: Mt. Hope, New South Wales
Address: East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Edith Anne Gummow
Enlistment Date: 7 January 1916
Unit Name: 25th Battalion B Company
Age embarkation: 32
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death: 13 August 1957
Place of Burial: Strathfield, New South Wales
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Real Name: HERRING, Frank Valentine
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 1041
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria
Address: Canning Road, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Stepfather, John Hugh Gracie
Enlistment Date: 26 April 1915
Unit Name: 25th Battalion B Company
Age embarkation: 29
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Brewer
Date of Death: 4 August 1916
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Frank's father was Charles Higgins Herring, who married Elizabeth Gertrude Ryan in Melbourne in 1884. Frank was born in 1886, his sister Eva Agnes in 1888. Their father died a fortnight before Christmas that year. Their mother then married John Hugh Gracie, master brewer, in Tasmania in 1894 and came to Western Australia with him. In 1900 he bought the Castlemaine Brewery in East Fremantle, and turned it into a great success. In 1907 Elizabeth bolted, heading to the eastern states leaving the children with John Gracie. He divorced her in 1909 and she did not defend the action. The children called themselves Gracie, were sent to good colleges (Eva went to Loreto, spoke five languages and became a highly respected teacher) and no expense was spared on their upbringing (Frank became a renowned yachtsman in WA, all the way down to Albany where he won the Commodore's Trophy). They were very close to John Gracie and had nothing to do with their mother. When Frank left school he apprenticed with his stepfather as a brewer, then in 1913 left WA to take a job in Queensland, where he enlisted in April 1915. Taken into 25th Battalion, B Coy, they sailed from Brisbane on 29 Jun 1915. Frank served at Gallipoli in the machine gun section, before the battalion left Egypt and arrived at Marseilles on 19 Mar 1916. During his time in Egypt Frank was fond of a bit of AWL: four days at Tel-el-Kebir in Jan 1916, court-martialled in March for escaping confinement (though he spent 28 days in the cells awaiting trial, so the sentence was quashed). In France in May he was AWL five days and earned a harsh two years imprisonment with hard labour. He would never go to prison: he was KIA on 4 Aug 1916. Apparently his stepfather did not know of his death, because he responded to an advertisement for NOK. His estranged mother Elizabeth, in Melbourne, also responded, and continued to write incoherent and passionate letters demanding Frank's effects, his Will and his deferred pay. After a significant investigation by the Military Police, the authorities decided that his sister Eva Gracie would receive his effects, scroll, plaque, and medals.
Reference: WFDWA project by Shannon Lovelady
John Hugh Gracie (stepfather) is featured on The Notable and The Notorious.
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 1149
Place of Birth: Lanfilla Victoria
Address: 27 Sewell Street(WW1: 69), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Mary Rebecca Gordon
Enlistment Date: 11 February 1916
Unit Name: 3rd Pioneer Battalion, D Company
Age embarkation: 31
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Tramway employee
Date of Death: 20 July 1947
Place of Burial: Fremantle Cemetery
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1916: Gordon, William B
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 7473
Place of Birth: Edinburgh Scotland
Address: 25 Duke Street(WW1: 73), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, T Goodall
Enlistment Date: 16 March 1917
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 25th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 18
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death:
Place of Burial: -
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 7441
Place of Birth: Semaphore South Australia
Address: East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Ellen G Gardiner
Enlistment Date: 16 July 1916
Unit Name: 16th Battalion, 25th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 35
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Accountant
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Place of Burial: -
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 3335
Place of Birth: Fremantle Western Australia
Address: Preston Point Road, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, C Gallop
Enlistment Date: 26 July 1915
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 23
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Clerk
Date of Death: 26 September 1961
Place of Burial: -
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Rank: Gunner
Regimental Number: 37176
Place of Birth: Perth Western Australia
Address: Preston Point, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Charles Gallop
Enlistment Date: 25 November 1916
Unit Name: Field Artillery Brigade, Reinforcement 29
Age embarkation: 27
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Storekeeper
Date of Death:
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 5699
Place of Birth: Happy Valley, South Australia
Address: 77 Silas Street(WW1: 105), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Edmund Gallagher
Enlistment Date: 4 September 1915
Unit Name: Field Artillery Brigade 3, Reinforcement 11
Age embarkation: 22
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Telephone mechanic
Date of Death: 22 October 1917
Place of Burial: -
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1 Dec 1917 Hibernian Society. The retiring officers suitably responded. Bro. J.W. O'Brien moved that a letter of condolence be sent Bro. E. Gallagher, who has recently lost a son in action, Gunner Patrick Joseph Gallagher, MM. Gunner Gallagher was a trite son of staunch Irish parents, and it was the hope of the mover of the motion. that sacrifices of the nature our Irish and Australian-Irish boys were daily making in Flanders would awaken the British Government to a proper sense of its responsibilities before those people who were to-day the object of its abuse, goaded by desperation, called home those gallant sons of theirs and hauled up the drawbridge in a determined attempt to secure, by more dramatic measures, that freedom which God intended for them. Bros. J. McNamara and Jas. S. Dowling supported the motion, which was carried in silence, all members standing. (Reference)
GALLAGHER, Patrick, J. MM. 5699.
Born in Happy Valley, South Australia, Pat Gallagher a twenty two year old telephone mechanic, was living with his parents, Edmund and Mary, in North Fremantle when he enlisted in the AIF on 13 September 1915. He was twenty two years old.Allotted to the 11th reinforcements of the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, Gallagher sailed from Melbourne on 11 October 1915 for Egypt where training continued. He mustered first as a driver, then as a gunner and was taken on strength of the brigade’s 8th Battery in late February. A month later he deployed to France.
Gallagher saw action for the first time on the Somme where his battery fired in support of the 1st Division’s assault on the village of Pozieres. On 24 July he was severely wounded in the ankle by shrapnel and, in a state of shell shock, was invalided to England for treatment and convalescence. While recuperating, he was disciplined for taking five days of unauthorised leave and returned to duty with the 1st Division’s Artillery in mid-February 1917.
Gallagher’s unit followed the advance to the Hindenburg Line where he won a Military Medal for his bravery at Bullecourt in May, after which a lengthy period of training followed in preparation for the more coordinated use of artillery in support of infantry that would be used in the new campaign to be fought at Ypres in Belgium. He was slightly wounded in July 1917 and was away from duty for only a couple of days.
In late September 1917, Gallagher enjoyed a short period of leave in England from which he returned eight days late. A Court Martial, convened on 20 October, sentenced him to 40 days of field punishment but he was killed in action two days later and the sentence was remitted. There are no details as to how Gallagher died nor is there a record of any later burial
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 7294
Place of Birth: Fremantle, Western Australia
Address: 70 Sewell Street(WW1: 148), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs A Nelson
Enlistment Date: 12 May 1917
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 22nd Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 18
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Farm Hand
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 922
Place of Birth: Aberdeen Scotland
Address: 32 Hubble Street(WW1: 60), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Fraser
Enlistment Date: 10 January 1916
Unit Name: 44th Battalion Machine Gun Section
Age embarkation: 28
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Fireman
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2405
Place of Birth: Cadnam, Hampshire, England
Address: 56 Duke Street(WW1: 132), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Mr Peter John Frampton
Enlistment Date: 7 March 1916
Unit Name: 51st Battalion, 5th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 31
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Master baker
Date of Death: 24 April 1918
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1913 Pastry cook Samuel Frampton baked at this address.
Rank: Private
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Place of Birth: Fremantle Western Australia
Address: Carring Road, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Annie Elizabeth Foxworthy
Enlistment Date: 7 March 1916
Unit Name: 44th Battalion, Headquarters
Age embarkation: 28
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Incorporated accountant
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 1707
Place of Birth: Richmond Victoria
Address: 52 Hubble Street(WW1: 92), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Francis George Foster
Enlistment Date: 25 June 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 21
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death: 6 March 1918
Place of Burial: Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 7296
Place of Birth: Port Adelaide, South Australia
Address: 107 George Street, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs M A Lamb
Enlistment Date: 23 April 1917
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 18
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death: -
Place of Burial:
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 3522
Place of Birth: Sydney New South Wales
Address: Moss and George Streets, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Edith May Forwood
Enlistment Date: 4 October 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 22
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Shop assistant
Date of Death: 21 February 1946
Place of Burial:
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 505
Place of Birth: Fremantle Western Australia
Address: Moss and George Streets, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs A Fordham
Enlistment Date: 1 July 1915
Unit Name: Siege Artillery Brigade, 2nd Reinforcements
Age embarkation: 21
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Commercial traveler
Date of Death: -
Place of Burial:
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2333
Place of Birth: Fremantle, Western Australia
Address: 45 Duke Street(WW1: 111), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs May Fitzpatrick
Enlistment Date: 3 May 1916
Unit Name: 44th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 18
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death: -
Place of Burial:
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Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Regimental Number:
Place of Birth:
Address: East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs E Dwyer
Enlistment Date: 30 May 1916
Unit Name: Special Draft, AIF Officers
Age embarkation: 35
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Barrister and solicitor
Date of Death: -
Place of Burial:
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2899
Place of Birth: Fremantle, Western Australia
Address: 29 Sewell Street(WW1: 71), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, William Cox, Duffield
Enlistment Date: 19 July 1916
Unit Name: 51st Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 19
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Clerk
Date of Death: 27 January 1970
Place of Burial: No known grave
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1909 - 1913: Duffield, William
