The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of Acting Staff Sergeant Major Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott, Australian Infantry Regiment. A storeman from Penrith, NSW, Frank Abbott served for five and a half years with the Citizen Military Forces, and was serving as a staff instructor when he enlisted in the AIF in 1917 with the service number 3170 and rank of Sergeant. He embarked from Sydney on 10 May 1917 with the 7th Reinforcements, 36th Battalion and later transferred to the 33rd Battalion. Sgt Frank Abbott was killed in action on 31 August 1918, aged 25. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France.
Studio portrait of Lillian Agnes Stuart Meade, the fiancee of Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott. A storeman from Penrith, NSW, Staff Sergeant Major Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott served for five and a half
Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge.
Studio portrait of Staff Sergeant Major Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott, Australian Infantry Regiment. A storeman from Penrith, NSW, Frank Abbott served for five and a half years with the Citizen Milita
Outdoor group portrait of several members of the Abbott family, relatives of 3170 Sergeant Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott. Identified back row, left to right: May Abbott and James Joseph Abbott (siblin
Studio portrait of Lillian Agnes Stuart Meade, the fiancee of Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott. A storeman from Penrith, NSW, Staff Sergeant Major Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott served for five and a half
Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge.
4187 Private Leslie Charles Frost, 13th Reinforcements, 13th Battalion. Private Frost was born in Penrith, NSW and grew up in Woollahra NSW and was a Machinist prior to enlisting. On the 15 August 191
Biographical note: 3170 Sergeant Francis Arthur Abbott, 33 Battalion, AIF. Killed in action, Peronne, 31 August 1918. Age 25. Son of Joseph and Mary Ann Abbott of Hornseywood, Penrith, New South
