HEIDEMANN, August Wilhelm
| Service Number: | Q144540 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 May 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17 Personnel Staging Camp |
| Born: | Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 19 August 1907 |
| Home Town: | Landsborough, Sunshine Coast, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Theebine State School via Gympie, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Cafe Proprietor |
| Died: | Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 13 July 1988, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Landsborough and District Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 18 May 1942: | Involvement Q144540 | |
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| 18 May 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 18 May 1942: | Enlisted Q144540 | |
| 14 Feb 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q144540, 17 Personnel Staging Camp | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Q144540 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private August Wilhelm Heidemann (Service No:Q144540) enlisted in the ACMF on 18 May 1942 - trade group Butcher - and was attached to 17th Australian Personnel Staging Camp (APSC) at Discharge on 14 February 1944.
August was born in Gympie, QLD in 1907, third of eight children of Jorgen Peter Heidemann (b1872 in Tonder, Denmark) and Hannah Phippen Woodford (b1874 in Ryde, New South Wales). Jorgen immigrated with his parents and siblings in 1878, arriving in Maryborough on board the Herschel - the family settled at Goorah via Tiaro in the Gympie region. Jorgen started work as a licensed firewood cutter and splitter, and by 1895 was a Farmer at Kanyan via Gympie. In 1902 when he was Naturalised, and he and Hannah married, Jorgen was a Farmer at Thompson's Flat Farm at Kilkivan Junction. The couple settled at Gunalda via Tiaro in the Gympie region, where they raised their family and Jorgen was a Labourer/Farmer.
August started work in Theebine as a Labourer, and was a Butcher in Miva via Tiaro in 1939 when he married Florence Emma Duhs (b1914 in Brisbane, QLD). August and Florence settled in Landsborough, where they raised their family and August was a Farmer and Cafe Proprietor (Three Way Cafe). In the late 1940s August and Florence moved to Peachester via Beerwah, where August was a Farmer until the early 1960s. August and Florence divorced in the early 1960s - Florence remained in Peachester and August moved to Emerald, where he married his second wife, Irene Veronica (b1929). August and Irene settled in Emerald, where August was a Labourer before retiring to Gladstone in the late 1970s. August died in 1988 and Irene in 2016.
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