SCHMIDT, Horace John
| Service Number: | VX149740 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 September 1944 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia , 14 August 1921 |
| Home Town: | Warracknabeal, Yarriambiack, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia , 21 August 2000, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 28 Sep 1944: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX149740 | |
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| 21 Oct 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX149740 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Horace Jnr was the eldest of two children of Horace Garfield Schmidt (b1892 in Horsham, Wimmera, Victoria) and Florence Conduit (b1889 in Ararat, Victoria). Horace - a Labourer - and Florence - a Tailoress - married in 1920 in Warrnacknabeal, Victoria where they raised their family.
Horace served with the Australian Army (Private; Service Nos: V509676/VX149740). He was in Cairns, QLD in 1944 when he enlisted and was attached to 78 BIPOD when he was Discharged in October 1947.
Returning to Warracknabeal, Victoria Horace was working as a Labourer in 1950 when he married Dorothy May Godden (b1927 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Dorothy was a Clerk. Horace and Dorothy settled in Warracknabeal where Horace worked as a Labourer, Builder and Photographer. He died in 2000 and Dorothy died in 2019.