Frank Coveney ADAMS

ADAMS, Frank Coveney

Service Number: 1611
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 56th Infantry Battalion
Born: Blean, Kent, England, 1879
Home Town: Gunbar, Carrathool, New South Wales
Schooling: Canterbury, Kent
Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, France, 3 December 1916
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gunbar District Roll of Honour WW1, Gunbar Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour WW1, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

14 Apr 1916: Involvement Private, 1611, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
14 Apr 1916: Embarked Private, 1611, 56th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Emigrated to Australia aged 32 years.

Enlisted Gunbar, New South Wales.

"He was with A McArthur Esq., Sylvanham, Gunbar, N.S.W. from April 1913 to Feb 1916 when he enlisted in the A.I.F."

He was 37 and the son of Mr. Julius John Adams of Langham Park, Bishopsbourne, Kent.

 

Births Sep 1879   Adams Frank Coveney Blean 2a 782

 

He is remembered on the Bishopsbourne war memorial which takes the form of a brass plaque within the church of St Mary, Bishopsbourne.

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