Philip Conrad BERGHOFFER

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BERGHOFFER, Philip Conrad

Service Number:	2778
Enlisted:	20 June 1916, Rifle Club Reserves
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	52nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Gatton, Queensland, Australia, June 1894
Home Town:	Theebine, Gympie Regional Council, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Wounds, 7th Field Ambulance, Belgium, 30 September 1917
Cemetery:	Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Ypres Reservoir Cemetery (Plot I, Row H, Grave No. 14), Belgium, Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, M.A.T.B. Gundiah Honorary Centre, Theebine Rifle Club & District HR, Tiaro War Memorial

World War 1 Service

20 Jun 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2778, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Rifle Club Reserves
7 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 2778, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
7 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 2778, 52nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney
26 Sep 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2778, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Polygon Wood, SW to chest and head DoW

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From 52nd Battalion AIF

Pte Philip BERGHOFFER was a young farmer, single and 22, when he enlisted in late June 1916. He had served with the Rifle Club Reserves pre-war and had previously tried to enlist but had been rejected because he was of German descent. He sailed with the 6th Reinforcements to the 52nd Bn on 7 October 1916, arriving in Plymouth on 21 November. He marched to Codford Camp and was then hospitalised with infection of the middle ear. He eventually moved to France and joined the 52nd in the field on 16 July 1917. He was wounded in action on 26 September, being transferred to the Field Ambulance with penetrating wounds to the chest and head. He died on his wounds on the 30th.

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