Frank Dangar - Vaucluse, NSW, Australia - Graves Mentioning a Cause of Death on Waymarking.com

The square white marble tablet on the upper part of the broken headstone has the corners carved out. It is above the rectangular tablets for his Mother (d. 1932), and Father (d. 1943). It outlines that Frank was a gunner (Service Number #653) with the [36th Australian Heavy Artillery Group] siege artillery, during the Belgium offensive. The lead-filled inscription for Frank reads:

To the Memory of
653 Gunner
FRANK DANGAR
Siege Artillery
killed in action
at St. Jean, Belgium
Oct. 4th 1917
Aged 23 years.
Erected by His Mother
and Father.

The headstone is toward the northern end of the South Head General Cemetery.

Address: Old South Head Road, Vaucluse, NSW, 2030, Australia

Visited: 1159 Monday, 7 October, 2019

Type of Death Listed: War related (Killed in Action) Cause of death inscription on headstone: KIA Website (if available): [Web Link]

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