Herbert John Franklin

Service number: 3638

Rank: Private

Unit: 45th Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Herbert Franklin was born at Sydney in 1899. He was a milk carter. He enlisted on 30 March 1917, giving as next of kin his mother, Margaret, who lived at 33 Belgrave Street, Manly. He embarked on the Marathon on 10 May 1917.

He served with the 45th Battalion. He contracted VD in mid-1919 and spent 88 days recuperating.

He returned to Australia on the Ajanaon 19 August 1919. After the war he lived at Botany.