Paul GOLDENSTEDT MID

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GOLDENSTEDT, Paul

Service Number:	1281
Enlisted:	17 August 1914, 6 years NSW volunteers
Last Rank:	Major
Last Unit:	15th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Sydney New South Wales, Australia, 31 December 1887
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Journalist
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 18 August 1966, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

17 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Colour Sergeant, 1281, 3rd Infantry Battalion, 6 years NSW volunteers
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked 1281, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement 1281, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
6 Aug 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion
14 Nov 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion
1 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Imperial Camel Corps
6 Apr 1916:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 6 April 1916 on page 861 at position 130
4 Nov 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 1st Battalion Imperial Camel Corps
9 Nov 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Captain, 1st Battalion Imperial Camel Corps, GSW to right leg - tibia
1 Jul 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Major, 1st Battalion Imperial Camel Corps, Unit: 1Camel Btn Promotion date: 1 July 1918
29 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Major, 15th Light Horse Regiment, Discharged Egypt

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gallipoli Association

ANZAC - Sergeant Major Paul Goldenstedt, 3rd (New South Wales) Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, AIF.
In August 1915 the desperate fighting at Lone Pine finally came to an end. Both sides were utterly exhausted. On that last day Sergeant Major Paul Goldenstedt and his men thought they were doomed.

Biography contributed by Sandra Barry

Married Sister Winifred Clapp on 15.3.1919 in England.

The couple had 2 children. Winifred passed away in 1925.

Paul remarried in 1935 to Edith Winifred Watson.

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