WEICKHARDT, Frederick Conrad
| Service Number: | 2278 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 June 1917, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Second Class Air Mechanic |
| Last Unit: | Australian Flying Corps (AFC) |
| Born: | Clunes, Victoria, Australia, 1899 |
| Home Town: | Clunes, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Electrical mechanic |
| Died: | Creswick,Victoria, Australia, 5 December 1975, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ballarat New Cemetery and Crematorium, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Clunes Soldiers Pictorial Honour Roll, Creswick Victorian School of Forestry Roll of Honour, Tourello Walnut Grove Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jun 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Class Air Mechanic, 2278, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 30 Oct 1917: | Involvement 2278, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Oct 1917: | Embarked 2278, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne | |
| 8 Feb 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Second Class Air Mechanic, 2278, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), RTA 22 September 1919 and discharged (TPE). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Frederick Conrad Weickhardt. aged just 18, enlisted in the AFC in Melbourne on 15 June 1917. He embarked overseas on 30 October and arrived in Devonport, England on 27 December 1917.
He was admitted to hospital at Aylesbury with pleurisy on 27 February 1918. After a month in hospital and some further time in the AFC Depot, he was posted to the 6th Training Squadron at Leighterton on 16 May 1918, where he served until the end of the war.
He returned to the AFC Depot at Wendover on 9 December 1918, where he remained for three months, before he was granted special leave to work as an electrical fitter for the firm of Edmundson’s Electrical Co. in Westminster, London, from 20 March – 3 September 1919.
He embarked for Australia on 22 September 1919 and arrived back in Melbourne on 12 November, where he was formally discharged from the AIF on 8 February 1920.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
Biography contributed by Rob Russell
When Frederick Conrad Weickhardt was born on 23 February 1899, in Clunes, Victoria, Australia, his father, Jacob Franz Weickhardt, was 29 and his mother, Florence Matthews, was 27. He married Daisy Victoria Lisle in 1925, in Victoria, Australia. He registered for military service in 1917. In 1916, his occupation is listed as electrical mechanic in Victoria, Australia. He died on 5 December 1975, in Creswick, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 76, and was buried in Ballarat New Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
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