Herbert Rudolph CARLSON

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CARLSON, Herbert Rudolph

Service Number:	496
Enlisted:	29 August 1914
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	14th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 30 October 1894
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Coronary Occlusion, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 6 September 1960, aged 65 years
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
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World War 1 Service

29 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 496, 9th Infantry Battalion
24 Sep 1914:	Involvement Private, 496, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Omrah embarkation_ship_number: A5 public_note: ''
24 Sep 1914:	Embarked Private, 496, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Omrah, Brisbane
7 Aug 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 496, 9th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli
6 Jul 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, Camel Corps
26 Jan 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 14th Light Horse Regiment
15 Nov 1918:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 496, 14th Light Horse Regiment, ex Suez per HT Port Darwin
26 Feb 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 496, 14th Light Horse Regiment

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Herbert Rudolph Carlson (Service No:496) enlisted in the AIF on 25 August 1914 and embarked as a Private with 9th Infantry Battalion from Brisbane for Gallipoli on 24 September 1914 on board HMAT Omrah A5. On 7 August 1915 he was WiA at Lone Pine - GSW to right shoulder, and was described by attending Doctor (NAA) as a 'Well behaved man who minimises his disability'. He was promoted through the ranks to Sergeant on 26 January 1918 and served with the Camel Corps and 14th Light Horse Regiment. Sergeant Carlson embarked from Suez for the RTA on 15 November 1918 on board HT Port Darwin and was Discharged on 26 February 1919.

Born in 1894 in Mackay QLD, Herbert was the youngest of seven children of Johan Carlson (b1858 in Stockholm, Sweden) and Agnes Ellen Newman (b1865 in Wiltshire, England). Johan (a Farmer) and Agnes married in 1882 in Ipswich QLD and settled in Laidley, QLD where Johan was a Farmer before moving to Mackay in 1893. Following Johan's death in 1896, Agens returned to Laidley and later remarried.

Herbert - 18 months old when his father died - started work as a Carpenter in Southport, QLD and in 1921 in Ipswich, QLD married Selina Muriel Rigby (b1893 at Yangan on the Darling Downs, QLD) - Selina was a Teacher in Ipswich, QLD. Herbert and Selina settled in Ipswich where Herbert worked as a Carpenter and Joiner before joining the Ipswich Railway Workshops in 1936 where he was a Carriage Builder. Herbert suffered repeated and prolonged periods of illness following his service in WWI, and Selina argued that 'His service and illnesses contributed, I consider, to his being a 'Burnt Out Digger' (NAA 1961). Herbert died in 1960 and Selina in 1981.

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