WW1
GRIFFITHS, FRANK GORDON
Studio portrait of 3659 Private (Pte) Frank Gordon Griffiths, 26th Battalion,of Deloraine, Tas. A farmer before enlisting in September 1915, Pte Griffiths left Australia for Egypt with the 8th Reinforcements in January 1916 and arrived in France for service on the Western Front in March 1916. Pte Griffiths was killed in action during the 26th Battalion's attack on Pozieres on 29 July 1916, aged 20. He is the brother of 1530 Pte David Edgar Griffiths, 13th Field Artillery Brigade, who died of disease on 23 January 1919 (see P07836.003) and 3621 Pte Ralph Arnold Griffiths, 40th Battalion, who was killed in action at Hamel on 27 July 1918 (see P07836.001
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