MYERS, Francis Walter
| Service Number: | 2392 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Hahndorf, South Australia, 12 July 1878 |
| Home Town: | Marble Bar, East Pilbara, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 25 January 1959, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia MCB-152081-R8P9P1 KB00115548 KARRAKATTA CEMETERY Burial |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2392, Mining Corps | |
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| 31 Jan 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 2392, Mining Corps, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney | |
| 31 Jan 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 2392, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Mar 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 2392, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Mar 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 2392, Mining Corps, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) | |
| 22 Dec 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 2392, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), France | |
| 1 Jun 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 2392, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), embarked London for RTA per HT Somali | |
| 22 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 2392, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Francis Walter Myers (Service No:2392) enlisted in the AIF in Carnarvon, WA on 19 January 1916. Initially attached to 45 Depot, Private Myers was attached to Mining Corps when he embarked on 31 March 1916 from Sydney on board HMAT A16 Star of Victoria, and transferred to 3rd Tunnelling Coy as a Sapper on 30 September 1916. Sapper Myers served in France, where he was WiA on 22 December 1916 and evacuated to Bulford Military Hospital. Sapper Myers embarked from London for the RTA on 1 June 1919 on board HT Somali and was Discharged on 22 August 1919. Four of his siblings also served in WWI.
Born in 1878 at Hahndorf in South Australia, Francis Walter August Meyer was the eldest of nine children of August Carl Gotthilf Meyer (b1852 in Hahndorf, South Australia) and Mary Jane Rounsevell (b1851 in Cornwall, England) - Mary immigrated with her parents and siblings in 1868, arriving in Adelaide on board the Orient. August (a Storekeeper) and Mary married in 1874 in Hahndorf, South Australia where they settled and raised their family. Following August's death in 1899, Mary moved to Perth with her children.
Francis worked as a Miner at Cooglegong nr Marble Bar WA, and returned there following his Discharge in 1919. Francis worked as a Prospector/Miner at Cooglegong and retired to Marble Bar, where he was living until his death in Perth in 1959.