SCHMIDT, Hector Edmund
| Service Numbers: | QX19867, Q46481 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/11th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Mount Samson, Queensland, Australia, 12 December 1916 |
| Home Town: | Kilcoy, Somerset, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Taabinga, Queensland, Australia , 22 April 2005, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Taabinga Lawn Cemetery, Kingaroy, Qld |
| Memorials: | Kilcoy Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Jun 1941: | Involvement QX19867, also Q46481 | |
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| 23 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX19867, 2nd/11th Field Ambulance | |
| 20 Dec 1945: | Involvement Corporal, Q46481, also QX19867 | |
| 20 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QX19867, 2nd/11th Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Hector was the seventh of eleven children of Gustav Hermann Schmidt (1884 in Samsonvale, QLD) and Margaret (Maggie) Ann Bell (b1880 in Samsonvale, QLD). Gustav - a Farm Labourer - and Maggie married in 1903 in Samsonvale. By 1917 Gustav was a Dairy Farmer and he and Maggie lived in Kilcoy and Rochedale before moving to Nanango where Gustav was a Labourer.
Hector was a Labourer in Kilcoy QLD when he enlisted in the Australian Army in June 1941. he was a Corporal (Service No:QX19867) attached to 2/11 Field Ambulance when he was Discharged in December 1945. Brother Gilbert (Private; Service No:QX40008) served in WWII and brother Herbert (Bertie; Private; Service No:1400321) served in the Korean War.
In 1948 Hector married Myrtle May Larsen (b1924 in Kingaroy, QLD). Hector and Myrtle lived at Stuart Valley in Kingaroy where Hector was a Labourer. In the early 1950s they moved to Goodger in Nanango where Hector was a Farmer, before relocating to Togoolawah in the mid 1970s. Hector and Myrtle retired to Taabinga - Myrtle died in 1997 and Hector in 2005.