CUTTEN, Frank Augustus
| Service Number: | 5569 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 24th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lancefield Junction, Victoria, Australia, 19 August 1881 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Frankston, Victoria, Australia, 24 April 1954, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Euroa Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Tecoma Belgrave War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5569, 24th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 5569, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 5569, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne | |
| 3 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5569, 24th Infantry Battalion, France - GSW arm | |
| 19 Jun 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5569, 24th Infantry Battalion, from England for RTA per HT Militiades | |
| 20 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5569, 24th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Frank Augustus Cutten (Service No:5569) enlisted in the AIF on 11 March 1916 and was attached to 24th Infantry Battalion when he embarked from Melbourne for Plymouth on 25 September 1916 on board HMAT A9 Shropshire. Private Cutten was WiA in France (GSW arm) on 3 May 1917, and embarked from England for the RTA on 19 June 1919 on board HT Militiades. Private Cutten was attached to 24th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 20 September 1919.
The second of two children of Charles Francis Cutten (b1849 in London, England) and his first wife Amelia (Annie) Sarah Ann Collins (b1860 in Hamilton, Victoria), Frank was born in 1881 at Lancefield Junction in Victoria. Charles (a Station Master with Victorian Railways) and Annie married in 1879 in Wahgunyah, Victoria. Following Annie's death in 1881, Charles remarried and had a further four children. Charles worked for Victorian Railways as a Station Master and Customs Officer at Wahgunyah and settled in Melbourne in 1891 where he was Station Master at Caulfield.
Frank was a Butcher in Melbourne in 1907 when he married Blanche Gill (b1889 in Cornwall, England). Frank and Blanche lived in Rochester, Victoria where Frank was a Station Hand and in Beaconsfiled, Tasmania where he was a Butcher before settling in Melbourne where he was a Butcher when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, Frank and Blanche lived in Melbourne and at Monbulk where Frank worked as a Butcher, a Confectioner, Farmer and Sawmill Hand before Divorcing in 1926. Frank then remarried to Grace Olive Conder (b1892 in Melbourne, Victoria) and the couple settled at Monbulk where Frank was a Patroller for the Roads Board. Frank and Grace moved to Melbourne, where Grace died in 1937. Frank then worked as a Cellarman in Melbourne before retiring to Frankston, where he died in 1954.
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