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EDWARDS, Frederick Joseph
Service Number: | 4084 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company) |
Born: | Not yet discovered |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Circumstances of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia Section: KO, Road: 23A, Site No: 69 |
Memorials: | Woodside District of Onkaparinga Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
25 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4084, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
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25 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4084, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
25 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 4084, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
25 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 4084, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 4084 | |
Date unknown: | Wounded 4084 |
Frederick Joseph Edwards
Frederick Joseph Edwards was born at Forest Range in August 1880, according to his enlistment attestation paper. He enlisted on the 5th January 1916, giving his civilian occupation as a navvy. Edwards was assigned to the 5th Tunnelling Company.
Edwards was admitted to Tidworth Military Hospital on the 8th February 1917, being diagnosed with having myalgia {muscular rheumatism}. He continued to suffer from chronic osteo-arthritis and on the 13th April 1917 he boarded the M.T. Barambah to return to Australia. Edwards bisembarked on the 5th June
1917 and was discharged as medically unfit. On the 1st December 1917 the Australian Government granted a pension for Edwards, his wife and their four children.
Illness plagued Edwards as was borne out by the medical report on his discharge. It stated that shortly after his arrival in England he was hospitalised with a chill. Upon returning to active service Edwards contracted another chill that led to rheumatism, necessitating a convalescent period of six weeks in Newbury. A further medical report on the 19th December 1921 conducted in Melbourne stated Edwards was “…. very pale and anaemic ….marked signs of osteo-arthritis in ankles, knees and shoulders …much wasting of leg muscles.”{NAA B2455, 4084.}
Submitted 8 October 2023 by christopher collins