Private Frederick Henry Wallwork
- Rank
- Private
- Service number
- 3008A
- Unit
- 4 Machine Gun Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Villers Bretonneux, France
- Date of death
- 25 April 1918
- Age
- 20
- Plaque number
- MC5
- Dedicated by
- Family on 14 November 2020
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Private Frederick Wallwork of 4 Machine Gun Battalion was born in 1898, the son of Albert and Jeannie Wallwork. He grew up in White Gum Valley, near Fremantle.
He was the eldest of a family of two brothers and two sisters. Frederick attended Fremantle Boys School and served with the naval cadets for four years. At the time of his enlistment in the AIF in July 1916, he was working as a clerk.
Frederick left Australia on HMAT Argyllshire in November 1916 and after training in England, was taken on strength of 51 Battalion in France in April 1917.
In September 1917 he was wounded in action in Belgium and spent some months in hospitals in England.
Frederick was posted to 4 Machine Gun Battalion in France in April 1918 and was with the Australian forces who captured the village of Villers Bretonneux on 25 April thus halting the German advance on the major regional and strategic centre of Amiens.
Private Frederick Henry Wallwork, service number 3008A of 4 Machine Gun Battalion was killed in action on 25 April 1918 at Villers Bretonneux, France. He was 20 years of age.
He was buried on the battlefield by his gun crew and later re-interred at the Adelaide Cemetery, Villers Bretonneux, France.