| Regimental number | 550 |
| Place of birth | Broken Hill, New South Wales |
| Other Names | FRISBY, Norman Harry |
| School | State School, Western Australia |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Occupation | Wicker worker |
| Address | 340 Stirling Street, Perth, Western Australia |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 22 |
| Next of kin | Step-Father, Alex McAskell, 340 Stirling Street, Perth, Western Australia |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 44th Battalion, C Company |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/61/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A29 Suevic on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 31st Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Polygon Wood, Belgium |
| Age at death | 22 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 24 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 118 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Step-son of Mr A. McASKELL. Native of Broken Hill, New South Wales |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked from Fremantle, 6 June 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 21 July 1916. Found guilty of being absent without leave, 8th Training Bn, 11-15 September 1916: awarded 21 days' Field Punishment No. 2 and forfeiture of 28 days' pay. Proceeded overseas to France, 17 December 1916; taken on strength, 31st Bn, 26 December 1916. Admitted to 15th Australian Field Ambulance, 6 February 1917 (bronchitis); transferred to 11th Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 13 February 1917. Transferred to England, 23 February 1917, and admitted to Bath War Hospital, 25 February 1917. Transferred to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, 24 April 1917. Discharged to No. 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 7 May 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 12 July 1917; rejoined unit, 1 August 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 26 September 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Miscellaneous details | True name: FRISBY |
Postal Address:
Po Box 7916
Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
Northcott Drive,
Campbell, ACT 2600
