Studio portrait of Lillian Agnes Stuart Meade, the fiancee of Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott. A ...

Studio portrait of Lillian Agnes Stuart Meade, the fiancee of Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott. A storeman from Penrith, NSW, Staff Sergeant Major Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott served for five and a half years with the Citizen Military Forces, and was serving as a staff instructor in the Australian Infantry Regiment when he enlisted in the AIF in 1917 with the service number 3170 and rank of Sergeant. He embarked from Sydney on 10 May 1917 with the 24th Battalion and later transferred to the 33rd Battalion. Sgt Frank Abbott was killed in action on 31 August 1918, aged 25. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France. On the verso is written 'To Dear Ivy & May & Joe, from your loving friend Lil'. May, Joe and Ivy were three of Frank's seven siblings. Lillian Meade's only brother 1501 Sergeant Arthur Stuart Meade was killed in action at Gallipoli on 5 June 1915, aged 22, and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey. Lillian Meade married Alexander Charles Milton Gordon in 1927. She died on 24 June 1974 in Christchurch, New Zealand. See also AWM2016.26.18 and AWM2016.26.20 and H06383.