Watch List notes:

Trio: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 3546 Pte F.B.Cleaver. 12 Bn. A.I.F. All medals impressed. Original ribbons damaged, contact marks on second and third medals, otherwise toned very fine.

Together with tribute fob in voided gold (15ct; 5.73g; 31x35mm), ring top suspension, obverse inscribed, 'FBL', reverse inscribed, 'Pte F.B.Cleaver/52nd Battn/A.I.F./enlisted Aug1915/Egypt/France' (small dent on edge of central shield); illustrated and coloured Honourable Discharge certificate (36x30cm), numbered V 26043, by Bernard Partridge M.cm.xvi (1916), named to 'Frederick. B. Cleaver/3546 - Private - 12th Battn - A.I.F. (Served with honour and was disabled in the Great War./Honourably discharged on) 15-6-1918', with printed signature of George R.I. (toning around edges from when it was in a frame); Soldier's Pay Book (2, one for use on Active Service).

Frederick Blackett Cleaver, farm labourer, age 21, born at Ringarooma, Tas; Enl.11Aug1915 at Claremont, Tas, in 11 Rfts 12Bn, with previous service in Ringarooma Rifle Club (4 months) and D Troop B Sqn Light Horse (14 months); Emb.10Nov1915; TOS 52Bn 03Mar1916 at Tel-el-Kebir; to France 05Jun1916; WIA 16Oct1917, mustard gas shell poison, severe, France; Emb.31Oct1917 to hospital in England; RTA 31Jan1918; Disch.15Jun1918 Medically Unfit; Died 26Dec1959.

The following report was published in the Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania on Saturday 27 April 1918, page 8.

'RINGAROOMA, Friday.

Service was held in Christ Church in the morning, and at night nearly every one in the district gathered in the Druids' Hall for a national festival. Eleven soldiers--Major W. J. Bennett, Troopers L. Styles, W. J. Clark; Privates F. Cleaver, H. Haines, E. Nillson, A. Oliver, J. Oliver, V. Townsend, J. Worker, and A. Wright marched up the hall to "Soldiers of the King" played by the local band, and to seats in the front of the platform. After "God Save the King" and "The Marseillaise" had been sung the vicar (the Rev. J. M. Macdonald) offered two prayers, the first for the nation (sent out from England by Mrs. Macdonald), and the second, also from England, sent by Mrs. Ingles-Chamberlayne, mother of an only son, who was a midshipman on H.M.S. Hawke, when the vicar's only son and hers were torpedoed and drowned.

After songs by the state school children, and the soldiers' chorus from Faust by ladies and gentlemen, the returned soldiers were presented with gold mementoes by Mr. D. Donovan (chairman of the reception committee), amid scenes of patriotic enthusiasm. Ten mementoes were posted to other soldiers such as Major Conder, and others, who could not possibly be present to receive them; also eleven to the next of kin representatives of those who have soldiers whose bodies have been left on the bloodstained battlefields of Gallipoli, Egypt, France, and Flanders. Mrs. Levesley sang "Anzac." Addresses were made by the chairman, and songs were sung by Messrs. A. Krushka, T. Bruce, Miss Donnelly, and Miss M. Wardlaw, accompanied by Miss E. Wardlaw (Scottsdale). Miss Macpherson's recitation, "Drunken Jim," who became a sober soldier, and died sober, touched the heart of the audience, and she was encored. The proceedings closed with the Australian intercession hymn, written on Gallipoli:-"Remember, Lord, Australia's sons to-night," which was sung by the whole audience. The arrangements by the reception committee, and the decoration of the platform by Mesdames Haines, Krushlka, Fry, and other were much admired.'

With copy of Service Record and original Certificate of Service letter from Anglesea Barracks, Hobart dated 4th June. 1925.