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HABEL, Bernhard
| Service Number: | 3251 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Truro, South Australia , 19 April 1891 |
| Home Town: | Glenunga, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Greengrocer |
| Died: | Glossop, South Australia , 22 July 1976, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Berri Cemetery, S.A. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 27 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 3251, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Malakuta embarkation_ship_number: A57 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 3251, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Malakuta, Adelaide |
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Bernhard Habel was born on April 19, 1891 in Turro, SA, a small town located approximately 90km North-East of Adelaide. He was the first child of his mother Marie Matilda Habel and the ninth child of his father Wilhelm Emil Habel who was widowed when his first wife died in 1890. In total he had 20 siblings, 8 half siblings and 12 full siblings. He worked as a greengrocer before enlisting and had no previous military service.
Bernhard Habel enlisted on March 6, 1916 at Adelaide when he was aged 25. He was unmarried at the time. He embarked on the HMAT Malakuta A57 on June 24, 1916 and he Disembarked in Devonport, England on August 22, 1916. He served as a member of the 32nd battalion's 7th reinforcements until December 31, 1916 when he was transferred to the 32nd Battalion. Earlier the next year, he was transferred to the 70th Training Battalion on April 2, 1917 for a week before being transferred back to the 32nd Battalion on April 9, 1917.
He spent an abnormally high amount of his time in hospital and was admitted a total of 7 times throughout the war, 2 of which were for a self inflicted viral infection which resulted in his pay being docked for 23 days.
After the war ended, Bernard Habel was hospitalised in Weymouth, England on April 31, 1919 and then later returned to Australia and went to live in Knoxville (Now Glenunga/Glenside), SA. He later married in 1930 to Charlotte Alwine. Bernhard Habel died on July 22, 1976 at the age of 85 and is now berried in the Berri Cemetery and has no known descendants.
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