DAVISON, Frank Sinclair
Frank Davison was born in August 1880. His father John left his mother in 1890 and was never seen again. Frank was living at 19 George Street, East Melbourne in 1914 [ Electoral Roll] His mother was living in South Perth in Western Australia.
Frank enlisted in the AIF at Melbourne on the 20 January 1915. He was 25 years 5 months old, 5 feet six, and had a pale complextion. He listed is profession as Clerk.
Frank was allocated to the 14th Battalion, 5th Refits and spends his first two months in the Melbourne Depot. On the 17 April he embarked on the SS Hororata [A20] and proceeds to join the MEFD in the Dardenelles on the 19 July 1915.
He was part of the major action at Lone PIne in early August 1915 and is reported wounded with a gun shot wound to his right knee on the 7 August 1915. He was transferred firstly to the 4th Australian Ambulance Station and then to the Beach Clearing Station at Anzac Cove. At a later Court of Enquiry held in Eygpt on the 28 April 1916 it is established that he died of his wound on the 8 August 1915.
He is commemerated with an head stone at the Lone Pine Memorial.