Albert Ernest (Bert) KUHNELL

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KUHNELL, Albert Ernest

Service Numbers:	V56478, VX91555
Enlisted:	16 August 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/7th Australian Advanced Workshop
Born:	Northcote, Victoria, Australia, 7 May 1917
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 24 August 2006, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Queenscliff Cemetery, Victoria, Australia The Victorian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

16 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V56478
13 Apr 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V56478, 32nd Infantry Battalion
24 Feb 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX91555
17 Oct 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, VX91555, 2nd/7th Australian Advanced Workshop, embarked Cairns for Buna per Duntroon
30 Jun 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Craftsman, VX91555, 2nd/7th Australian Advanced Workshop, embarked Port Moresby for Sydney per Manunda
6 Dec 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX91555
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V56478

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Craftsman Albert Ernest Kuhnell (Service No:VX91555) initially served with the ACMF as a Private (Service No:V56478) with 32 Infantry Battalion from 16 August 1940 to 13 April 1942. He enlisted in the AIF as a Private on 24 February 1943 and was attached to 2ACTR and AACRSTU before transferring as Craftsman to 2nd/7th Advanced Workshops on 1 October 1943. Craftsman Kuhnell served in New Guinea (17 October 1943 - 30 June 1944) and was attached to 2nd/7th Advanced Workshops at Discharge on 6 December 1944.

Born in 1917 in Melbourne Victoria, Bert was third of eight children of Charles Rudolph Kuhnell (b1880 in Malmsbury, Victoria) and Henrietta Rebecca Smith (b1895 in Neerim, Victoria) Charles (a Labourer) and Henrietta married in 1914 in Melbourne, Victoria where they settled and raised their family and Charles worked as a Labourer. Four of their sons - Ron, Gordon, Bert and Lindsay - and daughter Rita served in WWII.

Bert worked as a Labourer in Melbourne, where in 1943 he married Alexina (Allie) Graham (b1921 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Allie was working as a Finisher in Footscray. Following his Discharge in 1944, Bert and Allie settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and Bert worked as a Merchant until the mid 1970s when he worked as a Lineman. Bert and Allie retired to Geelong, where Bert died in 2006 and Allie in 2013.

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