Frederick ACHILLES

Frederick ACHILLES Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

ACHILLES, Frederick

Service Number:	62
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	1 January 1877, place not yet discovered
Home Town:	Crows Nest, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	16 December 1941, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 62, Queensland Imperial Bushmen
18 May 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 62, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900.
10 Aug 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 62, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 477 notes 4th QIB embarked 5 Jul 1901 aboard Britannic returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 5 Aug 1901, disbanded 10 Aug 1901.

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

Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

After returning from the war Frederick (Fred) Achilles returned to the Toowoomba region and married Eliza Simpson on 17 Apr 1903 and they went on to have several children. In 1941 while living in Oakey, he was working with a road crew for the Dept of Main Roads when he and two other were struck and killed by a utility truck. (source- Australian Boer War Memorial Database Bio by hi Grand Nephew; several newspaper reports of acident).

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia