Name
Frederick Dudley Weedon Oatley
8 November 1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/03/1919
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
56th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SYDNEY (WAVERLEY) GENERAL CEMETERY
C.E. 14. 6636-7. (GRM/2*).
Australia
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
Frederick Dudley Weedon Oatley was born on 8 November 1884 in Double Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
He was married to Andree Adelaide Oatley and lived at Umeralla, Cooma, New South Wales. Occupation: Grazier
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 1 November 1914 as a Major in the 6th Light Horse Regiment, 19th Reinforcement and immediately promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. His unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board RMS Mongolia on 8 July 1916.
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front. Proceeded to Gallipoli, May 1915. Invalided to Egypt, thence to London, September 1915 (dysentery). Commenced return to Australia, 27 January 1916. Re-embarked, 12 August 1916. Posted to 3rd Camel Regiment, 3 September 1916; OC, Anzac Rest Camp, 29 October 1916; taken on strength, Reserve Imperial Camel Brigade, 7 February 1917; 2nd Light Horse Regiment, 20 February 1917. Transferred to 25th Bn, Western Front, 9 April 1917; 54th Bn, 21 June 1917; 56th Bn (CO), 3 March 1918. Gassed, 18 April 1918; evacuated to England, 25 April 1918.
He died from gangrene and the effects of gas poisoning incurred at Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
aif.adfa.edu.au
