Walter Harold KRIEDEMANN

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KRIEDEMANN, Walter Harold

Service Number:	Q204130
Enlisted:	27 May 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Beenleigh, Queensland, Australia, 28 August 1912
Home Town:	Beenleigh, Logan, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Beenleigh, Logan - Queensland, Australia, 28 January 2008, aged 95 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Beenleigh Cemetery, Qld
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World War 2 Service

27 May 1942:	Involvement Private, Q204130, Page missing from Enlistment Register
27 May 1942:	Enlisted
27 May 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q204130, 5th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
12 Apr 1944:	Discharged
12 Apr 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q204130, 5th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Walter (Wally) was the tenth of thirteen children of Gottfreid Otto Gustav Kriedemann (born 1871 at Elkana in QLD) and Helene Louisa Maria Christoffel (born 1876 in Germany). Gottfried was a Farmer at Alberton in Beenleigh, QLD in 1896 when he married Helene. Gottfried and Helene settled in the Beenleigh Region and raised their children. Gottfried was a Farmer.

Wally, a Labourer at Upper Coomera in Beenleigh, QLD enlisted in the AMF in May 1942. He was a Private (Service No:204130) with B Coy 5th Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (QLD) and was Discharged in April 1944.

Walter returned to Beenleigh and was a Labourer near Yatala, Beenleigh, QLD in 1952 when he married Frances Eileen Crane (born 1933 in Brisbane, QLD). Wally and Frances lived at Beenleigh, QLD where Wally was a Labourer. He died in 2008 and Frances in 2011.

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