SEIDEL, Albert
| Service Number: | 142 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914, An original member of A Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Braidwood, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28 September 1934, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 142, 3rd Infantry Battalion, An original member of A Company | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 142, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 142, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 22 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 142, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières | |
| 9 Jun 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 142, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit, GSW left leg |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Albert Seidel was the son of Johan Gottileb and Ellen Seidel. The father (known as Edward Seidel) had arrived in South Australia from Germany during 1854. Around 1868 he started a family with Ellen at Mongarlowe, a small gold mining town about 13 kilometres from Braidwood, New South Wales. After they raised 11 children they decided to get married in 1910.
Albert enlisted in August 1914, one of the first Australians to join. He was a member of the original 3rd Battalion and took part in the Anzac landing on 25 April 1915. Albert was reported as missing after the first few days on Gallipoli until he subsequently was admitted to a military hospital in Egypt on 8 June 1915, suffering from pleurisy. In France he was severely wounded at Pozieres on 22 July 1916, the 3rd Battalion’s first big battle on the Western Front.
A piece of shrapnel fractured his leg and caused a large wound which resulted in his return to Australia for a change on 13 February 1917.
He lost two older brothers killed in action during 1917, 2395 Pte Henry Edward Seidel 35th Battalion killed in action, 1 June 1917 and 1276 Pte Alfred George Seidel 19th Battalion killed in action, 20 September 1917.
Albert was awarded a pension of 45 shillings per fortnight from his discharge. He never married and passed away in Randwick at only 41 years of age.
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