NORDMANN (NORDMAN), Wilfred Gottlieb (Gottlick) Roland Patrick
| Service Number: | 36 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 8th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
| Born: | Vizianagaram, Madras, India , 2 June 1876 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Bishop Cotton's College, Bangalore India and Madras University |
| Occupation: | Accountant |
| Memorials: | Naval & Military Club of SA - Boer War Roll of Honour |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 36, 2nd South Australian Mounted Rifles | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 36, 2nd South Australian Mounted Rifles | |
| 1 Feb 1901: | Involvement Lieutenant, 8th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Julianne Ryan
The 1899-1902 Boer War is seemingly forgotten in Australia. There are no living veterans or days of remembrance to remind us of this conflict, which involved a military contribution that pales into insignificance in comparison to the forces that served and died in the Great War (WWI) and the Second World War.
Yet it was not one of Queen Victoria's "Little Wars", but a major conflict to which Britain and her colonies would eventually send nearly 450,000 troops.
It was in this war that the Australian commitment of 16,500 troops made up over half of the number of troops from outlying regions of the Empire who fought.1 And these troops served in a particularly bitter and bloody war.
Biography contributed by Robert Kearney
I, WILFRED ROLAND PATRICK NORMAN, heretofore called and known by the name of Wilfred Gottlieb Roland Patrick Nordmann, of Sydney, in the State of New South Wales, accountant, having been born at Vizianagram, British India, on the second day of June, 1876, hereby give notice that on the 28th day of January last past I formally and absolutely renounce and abandoned the use of my said surname of Nordmann, and in lieu thereof assumed and adopted the surname of Norman, and also assumed and adopted the name
of Wilfred Roland Patrick in place of my baptismal name of Wilfred Gottlieb Roland Patrick : And I further give notice that by deed poll dated the 28th day of January last past, duly executed and attested and enrolled in the Equity Office of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on the fifth day of March instant, I formally renounced and abandoned the use of my said surname of Nordmann, and in lieu thereof assumed and adopted the said surname of Norman, and assumed and adopted the name of Wilfred Roland Patrick in place of my baptismal name of Wilfred Gottlieb Roland Patrick, and thereby declared that I should at all times thereafter in all matters and things whatsoever and on all occasions use and subscribe the said name of Wilfred Roland Patrick Norman in lieu of the said name of Wilfred (Gottlieb
Roland Patrick Nordmann.
Dated the eleventh day of March, 1918.
WILFRED R. P. NORMAN.
Witness,—Austen* G. de L. Arnold, Solicitor, Sydney.