8th Battalion
Killed In Action
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Frederick George Drury (SN 6500) was born in St Arnaud but was living at Mollongghip, where he had been educated by his father, when he enlisted on July 14th 1916. He was 18, single and an assistant grocer. He joined the 8th Infantry Battalion, and left Australia in October and after some further training in England he reached the battlefields of France in February 1917. He suffered a serious head wound on April 22nd and was evacuated to hospital where he eventually died on May 2nd 1917. Just 19, he is buried at Bois Guillaume Communal Cemetery, France.
