NAME Frank Benn
BORN c1895
DIED  
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 1074
UNIT 2nd Division Signal Co
ENLISTED Melbourne 25 March 1915
DISCHARGED Melbourne 4 August 1919 – Poss. Medically unfit

 Frank Benn had a small block consisting of five acres in the Tamworth Land District.[1] He wrote to the Land Settlement Branch on 31 March 1921, stating that he needed his advance so that he could go in for raising pigs.[2]  To obtain his advance, he was told that he had to be in occupation of a home maintenance area.[3]  In May he asked that his application for a loan be held up as ‘he had given up the lease and trying to get a block in this district’[4]

 The file ends with no indication of what happened.            

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW:  Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files; [12/7242 No. 7368] Frank Benn, Application for a loan nd.

[2] Ibid, Frank Benn to Land Settlement Branch 31 March 1921.

[3] Ibid, A.A. Watson to Frank Benn 13 April 1921.

[4] Ibid, Frank Benn to Director of RSS 20 May 1921.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW:  Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files; [12/7242 No. 7368], Frank Benn.

National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers (Frank Benn) online: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3072082