Frederick Charles APPLETON MID

APPLETON, Frederick Charles

    Service Number: NX14765
    Enlisted: 13 May 1940, Haberfield, New South Wales
    Last Rank: Lieutenant
    Last Unit: 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia, 18 October 1907
    Home Town: Haberfield, City of Sydney, New South Wales
    Schooling: Ashfield Prep School, New South Wales, Australia
    Occupation: Commercial Traveller
    Died: Killed in Action, New Guinea, 22 September 1943, aged 35 years
    Cemetery: Lae War Cemetery
    Plot DD, Row A, Grave 5 Roll of Honour Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
    Show Relationships

    World War 2 Service

    3 Sep 1939: Involvement Lieutenant, NX14765, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion
    13 May 1940: Enlisted Haberfield, New South Wales
    13 May 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, NX14765, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion

    Help us honour Frederick Charles Appleton's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

    Biography

    2/13 Battalion

    Rank - Lieutenant.

    Son of Charles Thomas Henry APPLETON and Elizabeth Campbell McCREDIE who married in Sydney in 1906 

    He married Edith Joyce COOPER in Sydney in 1943

    His brother Ronald George APPLETON (SN NX14763) also served in WW2 and was a Prisoner of War - discharged in 1945

    -------------------

    He was mentioned in dispatches in Tobruk - 1941

    Showing 1 of 1 image.
    Click images to start slideshow.

    Links and Documents