Carl Hannaford SCHAFER

SCHAFER, Carl Hannaford

Service Number: S3161
Enlisted: 31 July 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank: Major
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Quorn, South Australia, 9 December 1896
Home Town: Lockleys, City of West Torrens, South Australia
Schooling: Adelaide High School and University of Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation: Medical Practitioner
Died: Westbourne Park South Australia, 1 January 1972, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

31 Jul 1940: Involvement Major, S3161
31 Jul 1940: Enlisted Adelaide, SA
31 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Major, S3161
31 Mar 1944: Discharged
31 Mar 1944: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Major, S3161

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Biography contributed by Annette Summers

SCHAFER Carl Hannaford MB BS

1896 – 1972

Carl Hannaford Schafer was born, on 9th December 1896, in Quorn, SA. He was the eldest of the four sons of the Reverend Charles Ernest Schafer and Eva, nee Hannaford. Schafer was educated at the Adelaide High School. When he was seventeen, he passed the senior examination at the University of Adelaide, and obtained a government scholarship to the value of £4540 a year to study medicine, graduating in 1919.  Schafer joined the CMF while at university and enlisted in the AIF, on 19th June 1918, when he was a fourth-year medical student. He was not called up for duty and was discharged on the 18th November 1918. His family was living in Chief Street, Brompton at the time. He married Doris Matilda Ballantyne, on 8th November 1920, at the Methodist Church in Pirie Street, Adelaide. They were to have a son and a daughter. Doris was the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Ballantyne of Hawker, SA.

Schafer enlisted in the AAMC, at the rank of captain, on 31st July 1940.  He named his wife Doris as his next of kin and they were living on Henley Beach Road, Lockleys. He was immediately called up for full-time duty and posted within South Australia to Fort Largs. He was posted as an RMO to the RAH from September 1940 until February 1941, and then to Wayville and Woodside camp hospitals until August 1942.  He was promoted to major on the 1st September 1942 and remained in the SA L of C as the president of the military medical boards from 16th January 1943. He relinquished his appointment as president of the medical boards on 11th January 1944 and was placed on the Reserve of Officers on 1st April 1944.

Carl Hannaford Schafer died, on 1st January 1972, at Westbourne Park.

Source

Blood, Sweat and Fears III: Medical Practitioners South Australia, who Served in World War 2. 

Swain, Jelly, Verco, Summers. Open Books Howden, Adelaide 2019. 

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