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SIEFKEN, Otto John
Personal Details
Service Number: | 354 |
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Enlisted: | 17 July 1914, Blackboy Hill, WA |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Company |
Born: | Wandong, Victoria, Australia, 8 December 1894 |
Home Town: | Maylands, Bayswater, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Butcher |
Died: | Pneumonia and Influenza whilst prisoner of war, Germany, 21 October 1918, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Berlin South-Western Cemetery (& Italian Cemetery) Plot XV, Row B, Grave No. 10 |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Wandong War Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
17 Jul 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 354, 11th Infantry Battalion, Blackboy Hill, WA | |
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2 Nov 1914: | Embarked 354, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle | |
2 Nov 1914: | Involvement 354, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 354, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
11 Feb 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion | |
11 Feb 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Machine Gun Company, France | |
15 Apr 1917: | Imprisoned The Outpost Villages - German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line, Captured at Lagnicourt. Reported died as POW in Germany on 21 October 1918 (illness). |
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