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Livingston-D-F-LCpl-1168 (redirected from Livingston D F L-Cpl 1168)

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Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Corporal David Frederick (Fred) Livingston, was killed in action on 20 July

1916 in the Battle of Fromelles in France. After the war his grave could not

be located and he was commemorated on the VC Corner Australian

Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France. In 2008 a burial ground was located

at Pheasant Wood, France containing the bodies of 250 British and Australian

soldiers including Cpl Livingston. All of the remains were reburied in the newly

created Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery. At the time of the

official dedication of the new cemetery on 19 July 2010, ninety-six of the

Australians had been identified through a combination of anthropological,

archaeological, historical and DNA information. In April 2011 a further 14

Australians were identified including Cpl Livingston.

(Source: Australian War Memorial) http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/H05737

 

Livingston D F     L-Cpl    1168    David Frederick         29 Inf Bn    38    Grazier    Single           

Address:    East Melbourne, Simpson St, 144   

Next of Kin:    Livingston, M L, Mrs, wife, 144 Simpson St, East Melbourne   

Enlisted:    5 Jul 1915       

Embarked:     A11 Ascanius 10 Nov 1915   

Prior Service:  51st Inf

 

Livingston's sister, Mrs E Major, lived at "Aberfeldie", Essendon, which probably explains how his name appeared on the Essendon Town Hall Roll of Honour and the Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour despite not living locally.

 

Date of death: 19/07/1916

CWGC: "Son of David and Lettia Livingston; husband of Lillie M. Livingston, of 3, Esplanade, Elwood, Victoria. Native of Tarraville".

FROMELLES (PHEASANT WOOD) MILITARY CEMETERY

 

Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiries Bureau Correspondence

 

No enquiry was held but information from the Germans indicated that Livingston had fallen on 19/7/1916 in the neighbourhood of Fromelles.

 

https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1061461--1-.pdf

 

The postcard from Germany telling the British authorities of the death of Fred Livingston. 

From his B2455 file at the National Archives.

 

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Town Hall F-L

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour Wounded 

 

 

In Memoriam

 

LIVINGSTON.—In sad but loving memory of
my dear husband Cpl. Fred. Livingston, killed in    
action in France, between 19th and 20th July,  
1916, late D Company, 29th Battalion.
Oh, God grant us the victory that so good and
noble a life has not been given in vain.
—(Inserted his loving wife, Lillie M. Livingston.)

Family Notices. (1917, July 19). The Argus, p. 1. 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1636775

 

LIVINGSTON,-In loving memory of my dear hus-

band, Cpl. Fred Livingston, killed in action in

France between 19th and 20th July, D Company,

29th Battalion.

None speaks of his name but to praise.

-(Inserted by his loving wife, Lillie M. Living-

ston.)

Family Notices. (1918, July 19). The Argus, p. 1.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1408837

 

LIVINGSTON.-In loving memory of my dear hus-

band, Corporal Fred Livingston, killed in action in

France, between the 19th and 20th July. 1916.  

One of the many unreturned brave.

-(Inserted by his loving wife, Lillie M. Living-

ston.)

Family Notices. (1919, July 21). The Argus p. 1.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4714308

 

No further notices in The Argus to 1921.

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