Macquarie Grosvenor Farren

Service number: 4779

Rank: Private

Unit: 4th Battalion then 45th Battalion

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Date of death: 28 April 1990

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Macquarie Farren was born in 1891 at Manly [elsewhere stated Bathurst, birth record not found on NSW BDM]. He was an insurance clerk prior to enlisting, and his mother lived at 40 Fairlight Crescent, Manly. He enlisted on 15 November 1915.

He was transferred to the 56th Battalion on 20 April 1916. He suffered a gunshot wound to his foot on 27 July 1916. A Court-martial found that it was a self-inflicted injury, and he was given fourteen days’ Field Punishment No 1.

He returned to Australia on the Barambahon 8 April 1917, and subsequently discharged on 23 August 1917.

He married in 1934 at Manly, and died at Balgowlah on 28 April 1990.