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Trickey-F-Pte-696

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 8 years ago

Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Trickey F    Pte    696    Frank             7 Inf Bn    20  18  Labourer    Single    Pres       

Address:    Kensington, Bellair St, 14  

Next of Kin:    Trickey, F, Mrs, c/- Mrs J Trickey, 14 Bellair St, Kensington  

                                                                             26 Bellair St, Kensington  (notified 5/1/1920)

Enlisted:    22 Aug 1914       

Embarked:     A20 Hororata 19 Oct 1914   

Prior service:  2 years vol Naval Cadets

 

Note:  the Embarkation Roll shows the address as 40, but it has been transcribed incorrectly and should read 14.

 

Date of Death:  25/04/1915

CWGC:  "Son of Florrie Trickey, and the late Ebenezer Trickey. Of Portland, Victoria, Australia".

Frank was originally buried in an isolated grave near the bottom of Victoria Gully, re-interred in a cemetery called Brown's Dip, but again moved to Lone Pine Cemetery.

Brown's Dip Cemetery

LONE PINE CEMETERY, ANZAC

 

Private Frank Trickey

 

(wounded) is the eldest son of the late Mr E Trickey, and grandson of Mr. C. Trickey, tailor, Portland. Prior to enlisting he was living with his uncle at Kensington. He is 21 years of age.

 

Captain E. J. J. Kerby. (1915, June 16). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 12. Retrieved February 14, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154942459

 

Frank Trickey's grave marker at the Lone Pine Cemetery, courtesy of Kim Phillips of the

Spirits of Gallipoli  website.

 

Mentioned in this publication:

A SOLDIER'S INTERESTING LETTER. (1915, October 23). Kyneton Guardian (Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 4. Retrieved May 30, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129607031

 

 

War Service Commemorated

Portland Elementary School

Flemington-Presbyterian-Church

Anzac Honoured Dead

Regimental Register

 

No In Memoriam notices in The Argus to 1919.

 

In Memoriam

 

 

TRICKEY. — Killed in action at the landing at

 

 

the Dardanelles on the 25th April, 1915, Frank,

 

 

dearly loved nephew of A. E. and M. J. Trickey,

 

 

and cousin of Bert., Ernie, Lavinia, Lily, Charles,

 

 

Maud, Stanley, Doris and Mrs. Lodge, and brother

 

 

of Lily, Kensington.

 

 

Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee

 

 

Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian and

 

 

guide;

 

 

He gave thee, He took thee, and He will restore

 

 

thee,

 

 

And death has no sting, for the Saviour has died,

 

 

—Inserted by bis loving uncle, aunt and cousins,

 

 

Kensington.

 

Family Notices (1917, April 25). The Age

(Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), , p. 1.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154975105

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