Informationen zu Geburt

Geburtsjahr:
1887
Geburtsort:
Newport, Victoria, Australia

Allgemeine Informationen

Letzter bekannter Wohnsitz:
Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
Beruf:
Feuerwehrmann
Religion:
Church of England

Informationen zum Armeedienst

Land:
Australia
Truppe:
Australian Imperial Force
Rang:
Corporal
Dienstnummer:
511
Einberufung datum:
14/12/1916
Einberufung ort:
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Einheiten:
 —  Australian Light Railway Operating Company, 1st Coy.  (Letzte bekannte Einheit)

Informationen zu Tod

Sterbedatum:
19/09/1917
Sterbeort:
Swan Chateau, Ieper, Belgien
Todesursache:
Im Kampf gefallen
Alter:
30

Begräbnisplatz

Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery
Grabstelle: II
Reihe: A
Grab: 7

Auszeichnungen und Orden 2

British War Medal
Medaille
Victory Medal
Medaille

Punkte von Interesse 3

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Meine Geschichte

Corporal Frederick Furnell lived as fireman with his wife Ellen Hannah and his 2 children in the town of Ascot Vale, Victoria in Australia.

At the age of 29 he enlisted the 15th Australian Light Railway Operational Company of the AIF.

In the second half of 1917 the Company worked at the front in Flanders during the Battle of Passchendaele.

On 19th September Frederick was visiting his younger brother Gilbert James, a lieutenant of the 2nd Pioneers, in the Swan Chateau near Ypres, headquarter of the 2nd Pioneers. They in company with others were having diner in a shack, when a shell struck a tree, exploded and killed 8 of them.

His brother Gilbert lived for four hours, dying in a dressing station, Frederick, 30 years of age, died within 20 minutes.

Corporal Frederick Furnell was buried in the Belgian Corner Cemetery Ypres, Belgium, plot II, row A, grave 7.

Verwandte, die auch Soldat waren 1