MAKIN, Frank Humphrey
Service Number: | 149 |
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Enlisted: | 12 February 1915 |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel |
Last Unit: | 6th Field Ambulance |
Born: | Gawler, South Australia, 25 November 1875 |
Home Town: | North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia |
Schooling: | Trinity College, Melbourne, Victoria, Austrlia |
Occupation: | Medical student |
Died: | North Adelaide, SA, 20 September 1961, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Privately Cremated |
Memorials: | Gawler Council Gawler Men Who Answered the Call WW1 Roll of Honor, Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board, North Adelaide Christ Church Honour Board |
Biography contributed by Robert Kearney
Joined the second South Australia Contingent as assistant to Lieutenant Surgeon Jermyn
In WW1 enlisted as a Major with 6th Field Ambulance, landed at Gallipoli 28 April
Appointed Lieutenant Colonel 1917
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Son of Louisa Caroline (nee Duffield) & Frank Makin.
Husband of Ivah Gladys Makin. Died 1999.
He was a Physician prior to enlisting on 12 February 1915. He served as a Major with the Australian Army Medical Corps, 6th Field Ambulance.
He returned to Australia in 1918 and declared medically unfit.