Name
Frank Reginald Golbourn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/08/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
886
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
24th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Standon memorials
Pre War
Born in 1893 in Standon, Ware, Hertfordshire son of Frank Herbert and Alice Mary Golbourn of 44 Derwent Road, Palmer's Green, London, England. He was a labourer and presumably emigrated to Australia.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 11 Jan 1915 at Sale, Victoria, Australia was discharged as medically unfit but re-enlisted on 29 Mar 1915 at Melbourne. Embarked on 30 Aug 1915 for Gallipoli arriving at Mudros on 27 Dec 1915. He then entered France at Marseilles on 26 Mar 1915 and was killed in action near Pozieres on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Dr Chris Parkinson
