HANLEY, Frederick
| Other Name: | Heinrich, Adolph Frederick - Birth Name |
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| Service Numbers: | 480, 2246 |
| Enlisted: | 9 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Farrier Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 14th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Emu Downs, South Australia, Australia, 29 September 1874 |
| Home Town: | Kooringa, Burra, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station Manager |
| Died: | Mingary, South Australia, Australia, 18 June 1922, aged 47 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Burra Cemetery, South Australia Plot: 3348 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 480, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 480, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 480, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2246, 3rd Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 16 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2246, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 16 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2246, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2246, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, WW1 embarkation roll- roll number: '1', embarkation place: Adelaide, embarkation ship: HMAT Anchises, embarkation ship number: A68. | |
| 10 Nov 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Battalion Imperial Camel Corps | |
| 30 Jun 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 14th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 1 Jul 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Farrier Corporal, 14th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 28 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Farrier Corporal, 2246, 14th Light Horse Regiment, Embarked to return to Australia H.T. Port Sydney 4 Mar 1919, disembarking 5 Apr 1919, discharged 28 May 1919 due to cessation of hostilities. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cheryl Hutchins
In WW1 changes name to Fred Hanley and volunteers.
OBITUARY...............BURRA RECORD 11 JULY 1922
Heinrich - On the 18th June (suddenly), at Mingary, Frederick A. (late A.I.F.), eldest son of Mrs E. Heinrich, Aberdeen, Burra, and dearly loved brother of Mrs W.J. Richards, Henley Beach.
Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Full name Adolph Frederick Heinrich changed in 1915 to Frederick Hanley.
Served in both the South African (Boer) war and WW1. First service was as a Private S.N. 480, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Boer War. Second service was as a Private rising to Farrier/Corporal S.N. 2246, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, AIF, WW1.
When Adolph Frederick Hanley enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his father J. G. Heinrich, Kooringa, South Australia. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, bk 3 p. 145, it notes his address post discharge as Kooringa, South Australia, now part of Burra.
He enlisted again in 1915 for WW1. A sworn declaration on page 50 of his service records states that when he enlisted on 9 Dec 1915 it was as Adolph Frederick Heinrich, and that in fact he had changed his name to Frederick Hanley by deed poll on 3 Dec 1915. His records subsequently appear under the name Frederick Hanley.
On his WW1 Attestation Paper, dated 9 Dec 1915, it is noted that; he was born at Emu Downs, South Australia, and was 40 years 3 months old; he was single and a station manager; his N.O.K. was his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Heinrich, Burra, South Australia; and that he had previously served in the 5th QIB in South Africa.
Adolph Frederick Heinrich was born on 29 Sep 1874 at Emu Plains, South Australia, a son to Johann (John) Gottlieb Heinrich and Elizabeth Heinrich (nee Eckert).
Following his passing in Jun 1923 at Mingary, South Australia, a tribute was published in The Burra Record on 11 Jul 1923. It indicates he left home to commence work early in life first as a cow boy at Koonoona, Sth Aust., on to Broken Hill where he worked as an ostler (stablehand) at a local hotel, and then onto Queensland where he worked as a shearers' cook, drover and horsebreaker before enlisting for the Boer War.
On his return from the Boer war he returned to South Australia and secured the position of station manager at Winnininnie where he remained until he enlisted for WW1. On return from the war he resumed his position at Winnininnie up until 2 years prior to his passing when he had purchased and began working one of the Boolcoomatta blocks.
(source- AWM Boer war Nominal Roll, Murray p. 503; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record; The Late Mr. A. F. Heinrich- The Burra Record, 11 Jul 1923).
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