1.Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917- Added name) and Bygone Queanbeyan as "Doran F. (B)".
2.No"Francis nor Frank Doran" listed on either the AWM Nominal nor Embarkation Rolls. This might indicate that he did not serve overseas but this does not sit well with latter comment form from the local papers that indicate he was a "returned man" See Queanbeyann articles below.
3. National Archives Australia records the following details for "F. Doran ":
A.DORAN F Doran Francis: SERN Depot : POB Middlesborough England : POE Newcastle NSW : NOK S Powell Cissie (South Africa). DOE:07.05.1918.Age: 42 8/12 ( b. 15.09.1875). Declared Unfit for Active Service 8.5.1918(Varisoce Veins). No further details on file that only contains 9 pages.
B. DORAN F Doran Frank: SERN Depot : POB Petersham NSW : POE Newcastle NSW : NOK F Doran Mr J. Leichardt, Sydney. DOE: 12.02.1916. Age: 22 6/12 (therefore born approx. June 1894. No further details on file that only contains 9 pages.
C. DORAN F P Doran Frank Patrick: SERN 74 : POB Merriwa NSW : POE Moree NSW : NOK F Doran Patrick, Nooah Vale ,Garah..DOE:14.09.1915. Age: 23 5/12.( therefore born approx. April 1892)..Discharged Medically Unfit (not due to misconduct.01.11.1915.Earlier football accident had ruptured his left kidney and suffered from renal colic.)NSW BDM Records a Francis P born to Patrick and Margaret recorded at Cassilis in 1882. A younger brother of Frank Patrick, Clarence Patrick joined the AIF in 1918.Ryerson Index: Records the Death of s Francis Patrick on 12.04.1965 at Wahroonga late of Garah. SMH 14.04.1965.No obituary sighted.
4. Stephenson: No mention.
5. Queanbeyan Age and Observer 13 June 1919 reported Welcome Home function at "Foxlow" for Pte R. Daniel MM and Pte Frank Doran. In this article it was reported that:"... Mr. Rooney, on behalf of the Hoskingtown Tennis Club, then presented Pte. Doran with a tennis racket (with a shield suitably in-scribed) and hoped that the recipient would win many a "love game with it. Mr. Dibden also presented the medal given by Bungendore..." Note: Trove records the results of various tennis matches in Hoskingtown/Queanbeyan early 1919 involving Frank Doran. No other online records of Frank Doran residing in Hoskingstown.
6. Queanbeyan Age 30.03.1920: Captains Flat: Reports function at which Mr F. Osborne distributed a 5 Pound cheque to a number of WW1 Returned men....."Private Frank Doran after he had very nicely thanked Mr Osborne and the chairman(Mr Jermyn) for the splendid present, quitely turned and handed the cheque as a present to Mrs T. Bradley, the widow of a soldier who had drowned in the Murrumbidgee. His action was loudly cheered again and again. Beyond doubt it was a most magnanimous impulse and shows that Private Doran's heart is in the right place at home or on the battlefield...."
7. Monaro Pioneers: Not mentioned.
8. Summary by PJH: No AIF Service records exist for Frank Doran however the reports in the Queanbeyan Age reported above indicate that he was indeed a "returned man" and as such his is the name recorded on the Bungendore War Memorial. It is possible that he was the Frank Patrick SER # 74 discussed at para 2C above, who after being discharged MUF in 1915, albeit using an alias. There is no link of this Frank Doran moving from Garah to Hoskingstown. His Service details remain "Unknown ": for the purposes of this record.
9. Not mentioned by Stephenson in Bungendore to Captain's Flat .Cemeteries ,Gravesites of District and Deaths During the Wars ( War Memorial) ISBN 0-9751284-0-X .AUGUST 2003.
10.Last updated 03 December 2016.