RICHMOND - YORKSHIRE
Grammar School
Grammar School
Private Frederick Aylward McDERMOTT 857
Born: 29-6-1876 Rhyd-y-Gors Mansion, Carmarthen, Wales Enlisted: 1-9-1914, Kensington, New South Wales 1st Battalion Australian Infantry Occupation prior to Enlistment: Clerk Departed Australia from Sydney, N.S.W. 18-10-1914 Killed in action, Gallipoli, 7 June 1915, aged 38 years Son of Mrs. M.A. McDermott, The Hoe, Plymouth, England Honoured: Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 30 |
Frederick was born at Rhyd-y-Gors Mansion, Carmarthen on 29 June 1876, the son of Paymaster Chief Cornelius William McDermott and Mary Ann McDermott. He was educated at Richmond Grammar School, Yorkshire, and at Mannamead College in Plymouth prior to emigrating to Australia in 1910, after having served for six years in the British army. Frederick enlisted at Kensington, NSW on 1 September 1914 into the 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. The battalion formed part of the 1st Brigade, 1st Australian Division, and sailed for Egypt in October 1914. The Australians were supposed to train for service in France, but instead were diverted to Gallipoli, landing on the Peninsula on 25 April 1915. Frederick was killed by a shell which landed at Courtney's Post on 7 June 1915. He was 38 years old, and was buried by his comrades at Shrapnel Gulley. His grave couldn't be located after the war, so Frederick is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.