black, frank edward

Gosford District Casualties of World War One

Black, Frank Edward Service Number 528

Died of wounds/ illness 26th December 1915 Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, England

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NAME Black, Frank Edward

SERVICE NO 528

UNIT 6th Light Horse Regiment

RANK Sergeant-Cook

AGE at Enlistment 32 yrs 4 mths

PLACE OF BIRTH Forbes, NSW

ADDRESS

OCCUPATION Butcher

DATE OF ENLISTMENT 19 Jan 1915

PLACE OF ENLIST-MENT

Liverpool, NSW

PREVIOUS SERVICE nil

NEXT OF KIN Wife- Lurline Gertrude Black. c/- R J Baker Gosford, NSW

PHYSICAL DESCRIP-TION

Height-5’10½”. Weight-136lbs. Chest -31½-34

Complexion-Fair. Eyes-Blue. Hair-Fair.

RELIGION R/C

EMBARKED Sydney, NSW 13 Jun 1915 per A29 “Suevic”

DISEMBARKED

NOTES

WOUNDED/ILLNESS 13 Sept 1915 Gallipoli-Diarrhoea & Cystitis- transf to England

DIED 26 Dec 1915 Royal Herbert Hosp. Woolwich England. Haemorrhage Effusion Pluris

BURIED Greenwich. Cemetery Gve A287 3rd

Class by Rev H W Trevor Re-interred Greenwich Cem, Shooter’s Hill, London Gve 74

MEDALS 1914-15 Star-21950, British War Medal-14374, Victory Medal-14317. Memo-rial Plaque & Scroll-319476

DEPENDANTS Wife;- Lurline Gertrude & 3 children;- Joyce & Merle & Richard Maxwell

PERSONAL EFFECTS

WILL

CORRESPONDENCE

REMARKS Post Mortem report included

Forbes Advocate Tuesday January 18

th 1916. P.2.

PRINTED IN GERMANY

Mr R.J. Baker has a complaint to make in his paper the Gosford “Times”. The wife of the editor of this paper, whose brother (Sergeant F. E. Black of Forbes) met his death at the war, received a number of condolence cards. On the majority of them was printed the fact that the cards had been printed in Germany and Austria, another instance of the thoroughness of the Hun and his ally. They not only kill our boys, but have supplied Australia with sympathy cards that can be sent to bereaved relatives in their hour of trial and sorrow.