Francis Edmund Westbrook1

#1777, (1889-1976)
FatherAlfred Edmund Westbrook1 (5 Jul 1862-1920)
MotherAnnie Beatrice Bradley1 (1862-)
Last Edited7 Dec 2020
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Francis Edmund Westbrook was born in 1889 at the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra.1 He was the son of Alfred Edmund Westbrook and Annie Beatrice Bradley.1 Francis Edmund Westbrook was also known as Frank Westbrook.1 He Westbrook, Francis Edmond  
Service Number:  1557 
Rank/Calling:  Trumpeter 
Unit:  2 FAB [Field Artillery Brigade] (October 1914) 
Ship Name:  HMAT Shropshire 
Ship Number:  A9 
Date of Embarkation:  20/10/1914 

Place of Embarkation:  Melbourne The Shropshire, was built in 1911 as a Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited of London ship. She was of 8,130 tons and was requisitioned as His Majesty's Auxiliary Troopship Shropshire to transport members of the Australian Imperial Force ( AIF ) to Egypt. The ship remained under the control of the Commonwealth of Australia until 1917. In 1922, she was renamed Rotorua and in 1936, transferred to the New Zealand Shipping Company, to be torpedoed in the North Atlantic in 1940, and 19 lives were lost.

At the time of his marriage to Winifred Eggleton, 21st June 1918, Frank Westbrook was stationed  at Heytesbury at Knook Camp, situated at the junction of the A36/B390 south of Warminster, it was laid out in October 1914 as an artillery camp, with Heytesbury House used as the officers' quarters. 

The camp was also in use during the second world war and was occupied by the 55th Armoured Infantry Battalion, 11th Armoured Division, third US Army. Many of the original World War 2 buildings still survive today.

Army Service:
Title
Westbrook, Francis Edmond
Service Number: 1557
Date of Birth:?
Place of Birth: South Yarra, Victoria
Place of Enlistment: Bairnsdale, Victoria
Next of Kin: Wife; Westbrook, Winifred Phoebe.1 

Francis Edmund Westbrook married Winifred Phoebe Eggleton circa 1918.1

Francis died in 1976 at the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn.1

Timeline

DateEventPlace
Family
1889Birththe Melbourne suburb of South Yarra1
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Note1
1918Marriage1
1976Deaththe Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn1

Family

Winifred Phoebe Eggleton (1896-1952)
Children

Citations

  1. [S371] GEDCOM file created by Andrew Kemp, 25 March 2011.