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Pte Frank Bluskie

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Given name
F (Frank)
Family name
Bluskie
Service number
1514
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
Private
Unit at embarkation
2 Battalion
Service (legacy)
Army
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Gallipoli Western Front
Fate
KIA
Veteran Notes/Bio

1.Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 1514 ;POB:Maryborough,Qld :POE: Liverpool.NSW:  NOK: Mother: B..Bluski.  (See item 7 below-Mother was Mary)

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Private ;Unit: 2 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 12 Reinforcements (December 1914 - December 1915); Age:30 (AIF Project has Age at Death as 38.5 and 36 from cemetery records) ; Occupation:Labourer;DOE:9.12.14  ; Embarked:11.2.1915.Sydney.HMAT Seang Choon. A49.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit: 2 Battalion ;DOE:9.12.1914 ; KIA: 7.05.1917.

5.See : OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6 .Original surname was Wrobluskie and this is how he is commemorated on the Maryborough ,Queensland War Memorial. Also Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. His connection with Bungendore is unclear.

6. Palerang Council gave notice in the Bungendore Mirror 18 March 2015 that it intended to use the road name of Bulskie Close in the 128 Ellendon St Bungendore development (DA 2013 .008/MOD.2014.095). Origin of the name cited as being commemorated on the Bungendore Memorial Roll of Honour.

7. Stephenson: s/o Valentine and Mary Wrobluski.Aged 36 at death (?).

8. Application to use Rising Sun Badge: On 3rd of November 2015, the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on the street sign for "Bluskie" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations.This request was approved on 21 December 2015.

9. Last updated December 2015.

9. Palerang Council gave notice in the Bungendore Mirror 18 March 2015 that it intended to use the road name of Bulskie Close in the 128 Ellendon St Bungendore development (DA 2013 .008/MOD.2014.095). Origin of the name cited as being commemorated on the Bungendore Memorial Roll of Honour.

10. Stephenson: s/o Valentine and Mary Wrobluski.Aged 36 at death (?)  

11. Last updated January 2017.

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