Cecil Albert BARTELS

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BARTELS, Cecil Albert

Service Number:	Q116263
Enlisted:	16 May 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	51 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 17 September 1906
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 February 1973, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane
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World War 2 Service

16 May 1941:	Involvement Private, Q116263, 51 Infantry Battalion AMF
16 May 1941:	Enlisted
16 May 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q116263, 51 Infantry Battalion AMF
3 Jun 1942:	Discharged
3 Jun 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q116263, 51 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Cecil Albert Bartels (Service No:Q116263) enlisted in the ACMF on 16 May 1941. He was a Private attached to 51 Battalion when he was Discharged on 3 June 1942.

Born in 1906 in Brisbane QLD as Albert Joachim (aka Cecil Albert), Cecil was the tenth of fourteen children of Franz Heinrich Bartels (b1865 in Germany) and Caroline Schweikert (b1872 in Rawbelle, Wide Bay, QLD). Franz arrived in Sydney NSW in 1882 on board the Etna and was a Cigar Maker when he and Caroline married in Brisbane, QLD in 1894. Franz and Caroline settled in Brisbane where Franz was a Cigar Maker before moving their family to Gunyan Station in Texas, QLD in 1912 where Franz was a Farmer. In the mid 1920s Franz and Caroline returned to Brisbane and Franz resumed work as a Cigar Maker.

Cecil worked in Innisfail QLD as a Cane Cutter and Yardman at the Imperial Hotel before settling in Brisbane in the mid 1930s and working as a Labourer. Following his service in the ACMF, Cecil returned to Innisfail where he worked as a Cane Cutter/Labourer until the mid 1950s when he returned to Brisbane. Cecil married Jessie Cheyne (b1914 in Townsville, QLD) and settled in Brisbane where he worked as a Labourer until his death in 1976. Jessie died in 1982.

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