Marius OLSEN

OLSEN, Marius

    Service Number: 4895
    Enlisted: 23 August 1915
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 46th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Flinders, Victoria, Australia, October 1893
    Home Town: Port Fairy, Moyne, Victoria
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Killed in Action, Bullecourt, France, 11 April 1917
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Fairy St. John's Anglican Church Roll of Honor WW1, Port Fairy War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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    World War 1 Service

    23 Aug 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4895, 14th Infantry Battalion
    14 Mar 1916: Involvement Private, 4895, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
    14 Mar 1916: Embarked Private, 4895, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne
    24 May 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 46th Infantry Battalion, Egypt
    4 Aug 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4895, 46th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
    8 Aug 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4895, 46th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm
    11 Apr 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4895, 46th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (First)
    11 Apr 1917: Involvement Private, 4895, 46th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4895 awm_unit: 46th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-04-11

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    Biography contributed by Robert Wight

    Marius Olsen is also remembered at the Queenscliff Memorial Garden.

    After the death of his son at 1st Bullecourt in April 1917, Danish born, Marius Olsen Snr became a naturalised Australian citizen on 7 July 1917 and enlisted in the AIF (5th Pioneers) on 21 July 1917 at the age of 39.

    He served overseas and returned home to Australia in December 1918.

     

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