Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Christian Hermann Traeger born September 30th, 1891, to Alfred Conrad Traeger and Maria Martha Bartel. He had nine brothers and sisters and lived in Cleve South Australia where he worked as a Blacksmith. He enlisted at Arno Bay South Australia with the 5th Pioneer Battalion on June 8th, 1917, at the age of “25 9/12” . He embarked with the 6th and 8th Pioneer Battalions on the 30th of October 1917 from Melbourne.

He fought with them on the Western Front until the 8th of May 1918 when he suffered a gunshot wound on the left arm and was admitted to the Bath war hospital. He was discharged later on only to be admitted to another hospital on the 24th of August 1918 with both Gonorrhoea and Syphilis but was discharged two days later.

He then returned to the battlefield and was moved to the 48th Infantry Bttalion on November 11, 1918, as the war ended. 

He returned to Australia in 1919 and was discharged 5th of January 1920. Later that year he married his wife Myrtle Millicent Windebank to whom he remained married to until her death in 1960 at the age of 66. He died 14 years later at the age of 83, the couple had no children together.