Frederick Cecil Goble BOLLENHAGEN

Badge Number: S3773, Sub Branch: Lone Gum & Monash
S3773

BOLLENHAGEN, Frederick Cecil Goble

Service Number: 56043
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 10th Infantry Battalion
Born: Lyrup, South Australia, 2 May 1896
Home Town: Monash, Berri and Barmera, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Horticulturalist
Died: Monash, South Australia, 20 September 1953, aged 57 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Barmera (Upper Murray) Garden of Memory Cemetery
Section F; Row B; Plot 7
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World War 1 Service

23 Jul 1918: Involvement Private, 56043, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: ''
23 Jul 1918: Embarked Private, 56043, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, HMAT Marathon, Melbourne
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Private, 56043, 10th Infantry Battalion

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Biography

Father : Gustave Adolph BOLLENHAGHEN. Mother: Ellen GOBLE. Source: South Australian Births 1842 - 1906 Book: 582 Page: 262 District: Wel.

Frederick and his twin brother 56040 Frank Adolf Murray Bollenhagen enlisted together.

On enlisting Frederick was 22yrs old; 5' 8" tall; 158 pounds; dark complexion; brown eyes; dark hair,  single;  Anglican.

20/5/1918     Enlisted at Renmark (place of enlistment Adelaide) 
23/7/1918     Embarked from Port Melbourne onboard HMAT A74 Marathon
                    as a Private in 3rd Reinforcements
23/9/1918     disembarked into London
27/9/1918     alloted to 10th Battalion
11/12/1918   returned to Australia onboard HT Saxon, ex England
28/2/1919     discharged (total service 285 days)

Medal:   British War medal 23370

He last lived at Monash, South Australia.

56040  BOLLENHAGEN  Frank Adolf Murray (twin)   (d. 12/01/1989  92yrs at Barmera SA)
buried in Upper Murray Garden of Memory Cemetery - Section G; Row D; Plot 9

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan. January 2016. Lest we forget.

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