PFUNDT, Adolphus Ernest Alfred
| Service Number: | 391 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Sebastopol, Victoria, Australia, 1871 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 27 May 1937, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 391, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 391, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 391, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 58, notes returned to Australia aboard Manchester Merchant arriving Brisbane 5 May 1902, discharged 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
As well as serving in the South African (Boer) War he also served in WW1, Private S.N. 328, 10th Light Horse Regiment, AIF.
He also went by the name Ernest Alfred Pfundt.
When Adolphus Ernest Alfred Pfundt enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in the Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his father A. Pfundt, Rupanyup, Victoria.
When he enlisted again at Guildford, Western Australia, in 1914 for WW1 it was noted on his Attestation Paper, dated 21 Oct 1914, that; he was born at Ballarat, Victoria, and was 39 years old; he was single and a carpenter; his N.O.K. was Adolphus E. A. Pfundt, Rupanyup, Victoria; and he had previously served in South Africa.
Adolphus Ernest Alfred Pfundt was born in 1871 at Sebastopol near Ballarat, Victoria, a son to Adolphus Pfundt and Maria Pfundt (nee Palmer). On his WW1 service record, p. 18, there is a war pension statement dated, 21 Jun 1917, which indicates he was then married and his wife's name was Myra Essie Pfundt. He passed in 1937 at the Fremantle Hospital, and prior to that had been residing at the Coogee Naval Base, Western Australia. His death was registered by BDM W.A. under the name Ernest Alfred Pfundt.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 501; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 58; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record).
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