LOEFFLER, Albert Joseph
| Service Number: | 507 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 18 October 1880 |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 May 1972, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Albany Creek Memorial Park-Cemetery & Crematorium, QLD Columbarium 12, Section 25 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 507, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 10 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 507, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB Draft embarked at Pinkenba 10 Mar 1901 aboard Chicago arriving Port Elizabeth 20 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 507, 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. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Actual name was Adalbert Loeffler (as recorded on Qld BDM birth and death register). He was known as Adalbert (Albert) Joseph Loeffler.
When Albert Joseph Loeffler enlisted in 1901, he was part of a draft of men established to follow, and embarked some four days after, the main 5th QIB contingent to South Africa. The men in the draft were not included in the original nominal roll for the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives. He is however, included in the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 19, and in newspaper reports.
His details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, where his N.O.K. is recorded as his father A. Loeffler, Campbell St, Toowoomba. The Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 19, notes his address post discharge was Campbell St, West Toowoomba.
Adalbert Loeffler was born on 18 Oct 1880 in Queensland, a son to Adalbert Loeffler and Belinda Loeffler (nee Irwin).
(source= AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 504; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 19).
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