Frank LAYCOCK

LAYCOCK, Frank

Service Number: 4
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 3rd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps
Born: Adelaide, South Australia, 18 March 1869
Home Town: Norwood (SA), South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Book Seller
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899: Involvement Sergeant, 4, 1st South Australian Mounted Rifles
1 Oct 1899: Involvement Lieutenant, 8th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse

World War 1 Service

28 Nov 1914: Involvement Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Eastern embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
28 Nov 1914: Embarked Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps , SS Eastern, Sydney
Date unknown: Wounded

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Biography

 Previously served 11 years B Company, 2nd Regiment and C Company, 1st Battalion.

Also served with 8th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse.

Served with the AN&MEF in WW1, was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain then captured by the Germans; returned to Australia 1919.