HOFFMANN, Roland Le Folet
| Service Number: | NX3832 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 October 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 6th Australian Division Intelligence Section |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 26 January 1907 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Died: | Prisoner of War - Suicide, United Kingdom, 3 August 1945, aged 38 years |
| Cemetery: |
Brookwood Military Cemetery, Pirbright, Surrey, England, United Kingdom Section 4, Row F, Plot 23 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Corporal, NX3832, 6th Australian Division Intelligence Section | |
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| 20 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Private | |
| 20 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, NX3832 | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, NX3832 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Jason Thoroughgood
Cpl Roland Hoffmann served with the 6th Division Intelligence Section, Australian Army Intelligence Corps. A journalist before the war he was the founding editor of AIF News, the first Army newspaper of the Second World War. He was captured after the fall of Crete in 1941 and remained a POW until his release in 1945. He was aged 38 when he died of self inflicted wounds in London on 3 August 1945 shortly after his repatriation from Germany. He was the husband of Mrs Ella Hoffmann of Sydney.
Gavin Long, the Official Historian, described him as " a talented journalist and an ardent soldier".
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