Heavens what a mystery - looks like 2 or maybe 3 chaps of the same name. I've summarised what we have as I keep having to go back and forth and it's beginning to drive me nutz!
I think all of this is the one person but his origins............................
From NAA WW1 record:
Fred YEOWART, b Liverpool (Eng),
Birthdate: May or June 1894 (states his age as 22y 1 month on 22/5/1916),
Father: Robert YEOWART
Sister: Katherine YEOWART
Family address: 45 Foxhill St, Liverpool, UK
Enlisted at Brisbane, 22/5/1916
Previously served in Royal Artillery for one year, time expired.
Arrived Suez, 20 Jun, 1917
He seems to have been ill most of the time he was in Egypt, although there was 9 days AWOL.
After being dangerously ill with a gastric ulcer he was declared medically unfit and returned to Australia (Sydney, then Brisbane), Feb 1918.
1929requests new Returned Soldier badge as his was lost at Bowen Hotel, 'up north' while he was 'canvassing' for Husol Manufacturing Coy.
1935, at 74 Burrows St, Port Melbourne
Statement that he lost his badge out of his pocket in West Queensland, May 1930, and also lost his discharge papers on June 28, 1930 in Qld
There is no mention, except for one reference of dermatitis, to any foot or leg injury.
From
TROVE 1918 Frank YEOWART of Hope St, South Brisbane taken to hospital suffering from poisoning.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/202617871926 - an account of him being knocked down by a car in Brisbane which resulted in him being critically injured (no mentionof the legs although the article mentions him having a possible spinal injury)
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/210483461945, Frank YEOWART, 49, a legless war pensioner of Wakefield St, Adelaide, pleaded guilty to behaving indecently and then giving a false name to police.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/48679748Then the strange wheelchair journey stories in 1948/49 giving his age as 54. In one of these he tells that his legs were lost in 1915 in Pozieres, France and he had been given the wheelchair by the Repatriation Dept.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/499319761949 In Toowoomba, Fred YEOWART found guilty of assaulting a girl under 17 - sentenced to 3 months gaol. This article also mentions the amputations.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/49715024Judith
