Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 28/12/1915
- Date of Discharge
- 25/08/1917
- Place of Enlistment
- Liverpool NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 18/11/1887
- Place of Birth
- Hall
- Address (at enlistment)
- 'Woodburn' via Hall ACT
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Next of Kin
- Samuel Southwell (father), 'Woodburn' via Hall ACT
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 5180
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 13 Battalion AIF
Commemoration
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Hall Memorial Grove, Victoria Street, Hall ACT
Roll of Honour, Wattle Park Church, Barton Highway, Hall
Notes
Frank Southwell was the older brother of Albert Southwell. He enlisted in 28 December 1915 with the 13th Battalion, arriving at the front line at Flers in France in September 1916. He was hospitalised in February 1917 with trench feet and returned to Australia in August 1917 before being discharged on 29 November 1917.
After his war service he worked in an ammunition factory in Lithgow then took up the lease of land near Charnwood in north-west Belconnen which he called 'Crowajingalong'. He retired in 1956 and moved to Ainslie. Southwell died on 18 October 1973 in Canberra.
Sources
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Lyall Gillespie, 'Ginninderra - Forerunner to Canberra', 1992
Lyall Gillespie, 'The Southwell Family, pioneers of the Canberra district', 1988
Queanbeyan Age - 6 November 1917, 28 June 1918, 29 April 1919
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
ACT Electoral Rolls - 1928, 1935, 1943, 1949, 1955