Adalbert Franz Hermann SCHMIDT

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SCHMIDT, Adalbert Franz Hermann

Service Number:	254
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:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 254
4 Apr 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 254, 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.
2 Aug 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 254, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 45, notes returned to Australia aboard Orient arriving Brisbane 2 Aug 1901, discharged 2 Aug 1902.

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Biography contributed by Faithe 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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