CALLAWAY, Frederick William Berni
| Service Numbers: | 202, 2113 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Annandale, New South Wales, Australia, 23 October 1892 |
| Home Town: | Annandale, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Annandale Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Seaman |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Belgium, 5 September 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) Plot VI, Row M, Grave No. 8 |
| Memorials: | Annandale War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Aug 1914: | Enlisted Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), Private, 202, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps | |
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| 19 Aug 1914: | Involvement Private, 202, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Aug 1914: | Embarked Private, 202, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 6 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2113, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 16 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2113, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2113, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Karoola, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Callaway initially served in the AN&MEF before he enlisted in the AIF. He embarked with the 6th Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion in June 1915 and fought at Lone Pine. He later progressed through the ranks until being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 5 August 1916.
During a changeover of the 2nd Battalion with the 4th Battalion at Hill 60 in Belgium, a minenwerfer mortar bomb exploded on a dugout, killing Callaway and 10 other officers and men of the 2nd Battalion HQ unit and 2 men from the 4th Battalion. All thirteen were buried in a row in the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground Cemetery at Ypres, Belgium. The thirteen men lie in Plot VI, Row M, Grave Numbers 8 to 20. The incident is described in the book Over the Top: A Digger's Story of the Western Front by H.G. Hartnett of the 2nd Battalion AIF.
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