Frank Gallin

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Name   Frank Gallin

Number    Private 3313

Battalion     57th Battalion  

Place of Birth   Koroit 

Next of Kin   His father Edward Gallin of Meeniyan

Date and place of enlistment   Melbourne on 19/7/1915

Physical details on enlistment Age 18 years 2 months,

5’3”, 10 stone 4 pounds, grey eyes and black hair

Religion   Church of England

Occupation   Clerk at the Victorian Railways

Date and place of death

He was missing in action at Polygon Wood on 29/9/1917 and declared killed in action on that date at a Court of Enquiry held on 3/11/1917

Location of grave or memorial

He is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial

Relationship to Woorayl Shire

Associated with Meeniyan 

Military History

  • 19/7/15 He enlisted
  • 26/11/15 He embarked Melbourne on HMAT Commonwealth
  • He started in the 11th Battalion then the 22nd and then the 57th
  • 23/2/16 He was allotted to 57th
  • 4/3/16 He joined the 57th in Egypt at Tel el Kebir
  • 8/3/16 He was admitted to hospital ill
  • 3/4/16 He returned to his unit after a post inoculation visit to hospital
  • 14/4/16 He was in hospital sick
  • 26/4/16 He developed a septic abrasion on his foot
  • 13/5/16 He went to the casualty clearing station with scarlet fever
  • 20/5/16 He rejoined his unit
  • 21/6/16 He embarked Alexandria
  • 30/6/16 He embarked Marseilles
  • 9/12/16 He marched out to the 57th
  • 1/1/17 He was ill in hospital
  • 27/1/17 He went to the 6th or 8th field ambulance and was transferred to a New Zealand hospital at Amiens
  • 29/1/17 He was transferred to ambulance train.
  • 30/1/17 He went to hospital at Boulogne
  • 11/2/17 He was transferred to England
  • 20/2/17 He was in the 1st Southern General Hospital Edgbaston with pneumonia
  • 23/3/17 He was transferred to the 3rd Auxillary Hospital
  • 8/8/11 He went to France to rejoin his unit
  • 31/8/17 He rejoined unit
  • 29/9/17 He was missing in action
  • 3/11/17 He was reported as killed in action
  • His permission to enlist is signed by both parents very simple note misspelt

A much better letter was sent from his father after information regarding his son’s death on page 28 of his file

  • He had AMP insurance policy and his father wrote requesting a death certificate
  • A letter was written in December 1918 asking for effects, which have not been received
  • His father received his scroll on 12/11/21
  • His name is on the Menin Gate

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