SCHMIDT, Adalbert Franz Hermann
| Service Number: | 254 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 20 December 1877 |
| Home Town: | Sandgate, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 11 October 1965, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
Biography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Joachim Samuel Hermann SCHMIDT and Kathleen Georgina nee FINLAY
Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Adalbert Franz Herman Schmidt enlisted in 1901 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 J. S. H. Schmidt, Seymour St, Sandgate. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 45, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his sister Miss K. H. B. Schmidt (Kathleen Helena Beatrice Schmidt), Seymour St, Sandgate.
Adalbert Franz Herman Schmidt was born on 20 Dec 1877 in Queensland, a son to Joachim Samuel Hermann Schmidt and Kathleen Georgina Schmidt (nee Finlay). He married Ida Wilhelmine Ernstine Martens on 9 Nov 1910 at the Lutheran Church, Beenleigh, and they had 4 children.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 514; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 45).
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