Frederick Grant HAMMOND

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HAMMOND, Frederick Grant

Service Number:	299
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
Born:	Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 May 1874
Home Town:	Brighton, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Heart Attack- while ploughing a field, 20 November 1935, aged 61 years, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Terang Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 299, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
1 Mar 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 299, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 411 notes 3rd QMI embarked 1 Mar 1900 aboard Duke of Portland arriving Cape Town 2 Apr 1900.
21 Jun 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 299, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 465 notes 3rd QMI embarked 9 May 1901 at Cape Town returning to Australia aboard Morayshire arriving Sydney 7 Jun 1901 (rail to Brisbane), disbanded 21 Jun 1901.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Frederick Grant Hammond was born on 11 May 1874 at Brighton in Victoria. He appears to have been living and working in Queensland when he enlisted for service in the South African (Boer) War with the 3rd Queensland Contingent.

Upon his return to Australia he returned to Victoria where he lived and worked as a farmer in the Terang area. On 27 Jun 1906 he married Frances Kate Williams at Korumburra, Victoria and they settled around 1919 as farmers near Terang, Victoria. He had teams of draught horses that he used to help prepare soil for farmers in the district, and participated in research planting of crops. He passed away on 20 Nov 1935 from a heart attack suffered while ploughing a field near Dixie, Victoria.

(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 473; Australian Boer War Memorial, ancestor database Bio by granddaughter Marion Stott).

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