BOUVIER, Frederic Albert
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 29 November 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Army Medical Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Ceres, Victoria, Australia, 4 May 1890 |
| Home Town: | Highton, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Medical Practitioner |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 December 1963, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Nov 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, Army Medical Corps (AIF) | |
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| 30 Nov 1918: | Involvement Captain, Medical Officers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS City of Karachi embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 30 Nov 1918: | Embarked Captain, Medical Officers, SS City of Karachi, Melbourne | |
| 12 Jul 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, Army Medical Corps (AIF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Frederic was the second of three children of Jules Francois Frederic Bouvier (b1863 in Switzerland) and Margaret Lamb (b1866 in Burrumbeet, Victoria). Jules arrived in Sudney, NSW in 1884 on board the Sorata. He was a Farmer in Ceres near Geelong, Victoria when he and Margaret married in 1888. In 1892 Jules was killed when he was thrown from his horse. Margaret remarried.
Frederic attended Geelong College, then Scotch College in Melbourne before studying Medicine at Melbourne University. He was legally declared a qualified Medical Practitioner on 1 October 1918, and enlisted in the AIF later that month. He was a Captain serving with the Australian Army Medical Corps in the UK and was Discharged in June 1920. Frederic had served for five years with the Militia - 2nd Battalion Geelong, and continued to serve with the AAMC Reserve until December 1944. Frederic's son Charlot Peter served with the RAN (Stores Assistant; Service No:PM8356) in WWII.
In 1923 Frederic was a Medical Practitioner in Dimboola, Victoria when he married May Shelton Spittle (b1895 in Strathfieldsaye, Victoria) in Geelong, Victoria. Frederic and May moved to Melbourne in 1924 and were in Dimboola, Victoria again by 1930. Frederic was a Medical Practitioner in Dimboola and became the District Health Officer and President of the Rifle Club.
By the late 1940s Frederic and May had moved back to Melbourne where Frederic set up practice until the late 1950s when he and May relocated to Southport on the Gold Coast in QLD.
Frederic died in 1963 and May in 1973.