Researching Frederick Osborne
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 14293 people with the Osborne surname? In that year Osborne was ranked number 276 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Frederick means "Peace" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Frederick Osborne on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Frederick Osborne and the Osborne Family History
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Osborne Genealogy Databases
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Frederick Osborne. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Frederick Osborne
Frederick Osborne
Frederick Meares Osborne & Bar, VRD (20 January 1909 – 23 July 1996) was an Australian politician and government minister.
Osborne was born in Orange, New South Wales, and educated at North Sydney High School and Sydney Church of England Grammar School. He graduated with a degree in law from the University of Sydney. He joined the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1938, and with the outbreak of the Second World War, he was seconded to the Royal Navy in 1940. He was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross in 1940 for "bravery and devotion to duty" while assisting the evacuation of forces from Norway as a sub-lieutenant on the St Loman, an armed trawler. He then successively commanded, and, escorting ships between the United States and Canada and the United Kingdom in the Battle of the Atlantic. He crossed the Atlantic 22 times and was the only Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve officer to rise to the command of a Royal Navy destroyer during the war. In 1945 a Bar was added to his DSC for sinking of a German U-boat.
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