WW1 Roll of Honour:
Roll of Honour
Family name:
McEVOY
Given names:
Frank Osmond
Gender:
Male
Religion:
Church of England
Date of birth:
2 June 1893
Military service:
WW1
Regimental number:
458
Rank:
2nd Lieutenant Military units:
9th Light Horse Regiment
7th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
Military casualty:
Killed in action
Date of death:
9 April 1917
Place of death:
Death
Arras
, France
Decorations and medallions:
1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal Biographical notes:
Frank McEvoy was born in 1893, son of Charles E. McEvoy, of Cliveden Mansions, East Melbourne. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, 1906-11 and was chosen to play in the First XV111. Following school, he was employed by Goldsborough Mort & Co. for twelve months and then at 'Brookong' Station NSW.
He enlisted on 24th September 1914, serving at Gallipoli as a Private with the 9th Light Horse. Invalided to England, where he transferred to and was commissioned in the 7th East Surrey Regiment in December 1916. He was killed in France when leading his men over the top on 9th April 1917. He was buried on the battlefield.
Acknowledgments:
Melbourne Cricket Club Roll of Honour
National Archives of Australia, Enlistment Records
The Argus, 23 April 1917