WALK, Rudolf Charles
| Service Number: | QX46585 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 June 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 30 January 1904 |
| Home Town: | Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Dairy Farmer |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 20 August 1990, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Nambour Garden Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sapper, QX46585, enlisted 29/6/1942 | |
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| 29 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX46585 | |
| 4 Mar 1944: | Discharged | |
| 4 Mar 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX46585 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Rudolf Charles Walk (Service No:QX46585) initially served in the Militia as a Trooper attached to 5th Light Horse Regiment (1932 - 1936), and served in the AIF with 7 Field Coy from 29 June 1942 to 9 March 1944. Sapper Walk served on Thursday and Horn Islands from 15 November 1943 to 17 February 1944.
Rudolf Carl (aka Charles) was born in Bundaberg, QLD in 1904, seventh of ten children of Johann (John Henry) Heinrich Walk (b1849 in Louenburg, Germany) and his second wife Martha Hedwig Sontag (b1868 in Retkewity, Germany). John immigrated in 1879, arriving in Brisbane on board the Arthurstone with his first wife and children. John - a Widower with six children - and Martha (who immigrated in 1889, arriving in Brisbane on board the Merkara) married in 1890 in Bundaberg, where they settled and raised their family. John was one of the original pioneers at Woongarra via Bundaberg, settling at Morocco Farm in Barolin via Bundaberg.
Rudolf worked as a Labourer in Bundaberg,where in 1926 he married Henrietta Elizabeth Drews (b1907 in Bundaberg, QLD). Rudolf and Henrietta settled in Bundaberg, where they raised their family and Rudolf was a Dairy Farmer in 1942 when he enlisted in the Army. By the late 1940s Rudolf and Henrietta had moved to Palmwoods via Landsboroug, where Rudolf was a Farmer. Through the 1950's and 1960s they lived in Montville and Canungra, where Rudolf was a Farmer, before settling in Beachmere via Caboolture in the late 1960s - Rudolf worked as a Ganger. Henrietta died in 1971 and Rudolf in 1990.
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