Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Saunders F                 Frank                 7 Inf Bn    28    Book keeper    Single    C of E        

Address:        

Next of Kin:    Saunders, George, father, Victoria St, Darlinghurst, NSW    

Enlisted:    9 Jan 1915        

Embarked:     Did not embark - deserted    

Frank's B2455 record shows that he enlisted in Melbourne and was at the Broadmeadows Camp.  He was assigned to the 6th Reinforcements of the 7th Infantry Battalion on 19 April 1915.  He would have been preparing for embarkation when the Essendon Citizens Military Association went to Broadmeadows to make some presentations in early May, but deserted not long after that.  There is no further sign of him.  The B2455 file currently contains further papers pertaining to a Frederick Saunders who has been assumed to be Frank re-enlisting, but as he is three inches differerent in height, and doesn't have the tattoos and vaccination marks that Frank had, it is not likely that this is the same man.

VICTORIA POLICE GAZETTE. [SEPTEMBER 23 1915]. p 708

SAUNDERS, FRANK, private, 28 years and 5 months old,
5 ft. 6 in. high, medium complexion, brown hair, blue
eyes, three vaccination marks left arm, tattoo both forearms,
faint. Born at Sydney, New South Wales; enlisted
at Melbourne.

Mentioned in this publication:

Presentation from the Essendon Citizen's Military Association in May at Broadmeadows Camp, May 1915.

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Town Hall R-Y

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours - Frank Saunders