Otto John SIEFKEN

SIEFKEN, Otto John

Service Number: 354
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
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World War 1 Service

17 Jul 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 354, 11th Infantry Battalion, Blackboy Hill, WA
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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