Victor Rudolph OFFE

Badge Number: S3735, Sub Branch: Colonel  Light Gardens
S3735

OFFE, Victor Rudolph

Service Number: 230
Enlisted: 20 July 1915, Keswick South Australia Australia
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 8th Machine Gun Company
Born: Tanunda, South Australia, 30 November 1894
Home Town: Tanunda, Barossa, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Watchmaker
Died: Millswood, South Australia, 14 May 1979, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
Memorials: Tanunda Roll of Honor
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World War 1 Service

20 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Keswick South Australia Australia
18 Nov 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 230, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1,

embarkation_roll: roll_number: 17 embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note:

18 Nov 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 230, 32nd Infantry Battalion
20 Mar 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 8th Machine Gun Company
20 Mar 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 230, 8th Machine Gun Company
28 Mar 1918: Discharged AIF WW1
Date unknown: Wounded 230, 8th Machine Gun Company
Date unknown: Involvement 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix)

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Biography

Discharged on the 28th of March 1918 in Australia due to a recurring string of admissions to hospital with Trench Fever while serving on the Western Front. He arrived back in Australia on the 27th of December, 1917 on HMAT Berrima (A35).

Awarded:

1914/15 Star: 7638

British War Medal: 7739

Victory Medal: 7676

Victor Offe later moved to Victoria where he married in 1920.