Enlistment Address

Rising Farm, Bearbong, Gilgandra

Service Number

228

Unit

1st Field Ambulance and 14th Field Ambulance

Fate

RTA 27 Aug 1917

Information

Sergeant Francis Attwood was a 38 year old contractor of Bearbong Gilgandra when he enlisted in Sydney on August 26, 1914. He was married with 5 children under the age of 5. He had previous experience with the Mounted Infantry Rifles in Africa. He embarked as Lance Corporal on the ‘Euripides’ in October 1914 and returned to Australia on August 27, 1917 after serving in Gallipoli and France.