FREDERIKSEN, Hermud Aksel
| Service Number: | 6752 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 September 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1878 |
| Home Town: | Birkenhead, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wharf Labourer |
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World War 1 Service
| 22 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6752, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6752, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6752, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6752, 10th Infantry Battalion, Menin Road, Severe Left-Leg Injury, S.W. (Shrapnel Wound), In France | |
| 6 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6752, 10th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Saint Ignatius' College
Hermud Aksel Frederiksen was a soldier in World War I. Although his actions in the war were nothing too special, he lived and he fought like so many others in his battalion. Like each of those men, he had his own unique story to tell.
EARLY LIFE
Frederiksen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, sometime in 1878. He was raised by unnamed guardians and eventually ended up in Adelaide in his late 30s. He lived in Birkenhead and before he enlisted, he was a wharf labourer, loading and unloading cargo from ships as a job. He was single and when he enlisted he didn't write his parents or even a family member as his next of kin. He wrote his friend. Mrs M. Eickhoff, who lived in the same suburb. She had a husband and a son, but from what sources I could find she had never mentioned Hermud Aksel. Perhaps she was a neighbour, or a lost lover but she clearly meant something to him.
THE WAR
When he enlisted in 1915 he was almost 38, old compared to most of the people who had enlisted at the time. On the 7th of November, 1916, he embarked for Plymouth on the HMAT Afric A19, and arrived at his destination on the 9th of January 1917. From there, he and the rest of his battalion proceeded to France, where he was wounded in action on the 21st of September on the Menin Road. It was a severe shrapnel wound to his left thigh due, most likely, to German artillery, He was transferred a war hospital on the 26th of September, five days later. That war hospital was in England, meaning that Hermud had to travel several grueling days to get there. After he recovered, he proceeded to France, where he fought throughout 1918 and was several times detached for duty with other units. He left England to return home to Australia on the 16th of June 1919. Safe.
AFTER THE WAR
After the war, Hermud Aksel Frederiksen went home. He returned to Australia and continued living his life. It is unkown when he died but he did return to Adelaide like many other men like him.
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