HARDER, George Frederick
| Service Number: | 3345 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 October 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 September 1896 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Birregurra State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer (Railways) |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 February 1934, aged 37 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Birregurra Murroon State School No 940 Great War Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 3345, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 21 Dec 1914: | Involvement Driver, 3345, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Newcastle embarkation_ship: HMAT Thirty-Seven embarkation_ship_number: A37 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Dec 1914: | Embarked Driver, 3345, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Thirty-Seven, Newcastle | |
| 21 Mar 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 3345, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , embarked Suez for Melbourne on board Ulysses | |
| 27 Apr 1915: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 3345, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Driver George Frederick Harder (Service No:3345) served in the AIF in Egypt with 3rd Field Artliiery Brigade from 9 October 1914 to 27 April 1915 (Discharged Medically Unfit). Driver Harder re-enlsted in 1916 briefly before cancellation.
George was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1896, youngest of five children of Johann (John) Harder (b1860 in Denmark) and Mary Ann Elizabeth Duck (b1861 in Somerset, England). John was a Labourer in Melbourne in 1885 when he and Mary married. John worked for the Railways as a Labourer, Platelayer and Line Repairer in Melbourne and at Murroon via Birregurra in the Corangamites. The family was in Melbourne in 1915 when John died.
George worked as a Labourer and Railways and Tramways Employee in Melbourne before enlisting in the AIF. Following his Discharge, he was a Tramways Employee in Melbourne in September 915 when he married his first wife Florence (Florrie) May Mathewman (b1892 in Melbourne, Victoria). George and Florrie divorced in 1919, when George remarried to Ella Elizabeth Watts Hopper (b1896 in Melbourne, Victoria). From the early 1920s George and Ella lived in Yallourn and Morwell, where they raised their son and George worked for the Tramways as a Motorman. George died in 1934 and Ella in 1954.