DEUBLE, Frederick
| Service Number: | 372 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 6 April 1878 |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Queensland, Australia, 30 August 1962, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland Plot: Luth |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 372 | |
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| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 372, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes 6th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 4 Apr 1901 aboard Victoria arriving Cape Town 2 May 1901. | |
| 12 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 372, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 150, notes returned to Australia aboard Aurania arriving Brisbane 5 Jun 1902, discharged 12 Jun 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Also served in WW1, Private S.N. 2603, 4th Pioneer Battalion, AIF.
He was born Friedrich Deuble and went by the anglicised name of Frederick Deuble.
When Frederick Deuble enlisted in 1901 for the Boer war in the 6th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as Mrs. M. Deuble, Toowoomba. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 150, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his mother Mrs. M. Deuble, Glen Vale, Toowoomba.
He enlisted again in 1916 for WW1 and on his Attestation Paper, dated 26 May 1916, it is noted that; he was born at Toowoomba and was 36 years 5 months of age; he was married and was a farmer, his N.O.K. was his wife Mrs. Christina Catherine Deuble, Kurrumbul via Goondiwindi, Qld; and he had previously served with the 6th Qld Contingent in South Africa.
Friedrich Deuble was born on 6 Apr 1878 at Toowoomba, a son to Christian Deuble and Mary Deuble (nee Riethmuller). He married Christine Catharine Friederike Wieden on 10 Dec 1903 in Queensland and they had 3 children.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 517; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 150; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 5; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record).
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