Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Private (Pte) Frederick Alfred Gaffney, 24th Battalion.

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Gaffney F A    Pte   52    Frederick Alfred      24 Inf Bn    21    Traveller    Single    C of E        

Address:    Flemington, Dover St    

Next of Kin:    Gaffney, T, 33 Canterbury Rd, St Kilda    

Enlisted:    18 Mar 1915        

Embarked:     A14 Euripides 10 May 1915    

Date of death:  06/02/1917  Cpl  4012    Depot

HOBART (CORNELIAN BAY) PUBLIC CEMETERY

Gaffney joined troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 30 Aug 1915, but by 29 Oct 1915 he was sent to hospital with pyrexia, which is an undefined fever.  He was eventually diagnosed with rheumatism and returned to Australia for discharge, leaving from Suez on 20 January 1916.  Gaffney subsequently served at an Australian Base Depot in Hobart where he died from fracture and dislocation of the neck due to misadventure.

INJURIES TO SPINE HOBART,

Tuesday. A man named Frederick Arthur

Gaffney is lying at the Hobart hospital in

a serious condition with injuries to the

spine. It is somewhat of a mystery how

the injuries were sustained, although it

is stated that he was bathing in the

vicinity of Claremont yesterday, and

struck his head in the act of diving.

No further particulars regarding the

address of the victim are available at

present.

INJURIES TO SPINE. (1917, January 10). Examiner

(Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), p. 6 Edition:

DAILY. Retrieved January 29, 2015,

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War Service Commemorated

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours

Regimental Register

Flemington Branch Australian Natives Association (ANA)

In Memoriam

GAFFNEY. -On February 6, 1917, at the Hobart

General Hospital, Frederick Arthur Gaffney, late

of Victoria, and member of the A.I.F., Claremont,

formerly on active service at Gallipoli, 24th

Battalion, 6th Brigade, aged 23 years.

Family Notices. (1917, February 7). The Mercury

(Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 1.

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