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Name: Frederick Paul Glatz
Service Number: 3609
Parents: John Hans William Glatz and Johanna Glatz ( nee Lehmann)
Place of Birth: Penrice / Angaston
Date of Birth: 29 June 1886
Place of Enlistment:
Date of Enlistment: 22 August 1917
Age at Enlistment: 30 years 2 months
Marital Status: Single
Next of Kin: Father, John Glatz
Occupation: Laborer/ Gardener
Religion: Methodist
Rank: Private 191732nd Battalion / 3rd Light Horse
Memorials: Angaston District World War One Roll of Honor; Kersbrook School Roll of Honor
Frederick trained at Mitcham with A Coy from 24 September to 10 October when he was transferred to the 32nd Battalion Light Horse. His unit embarked A73 Commonwealth, Melbourne on 2 November. He failed to re-embark A73 at Fremantle for which he was docked 14 days’ pay. Frederick embarked Canberra on 4 November at Fremantle and disembarked at Suez, Egypt on 21 December. He was stationed at the Light Horse Training Depot until 15 April 1918, when he was sent to the Reinforcements Camp at Moascar.
On 31 July, Frederick was admitted to the 14th Australian General Hospital at Port Said with malaria and was transferred to Rest Camp on 28 September. On 26 October he rejoined his unit from Moascar. Frederic received further treatment for his condition throughout early 1919 and was then sent from the 3rd regiment to Kantara on 29 March 1919.
He was returned to Australia on H.T.Orari from Kantara, Egypt on 16 May and was discharged on 20 July 1919.
Frederick was awarded the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Frederick Glatz died at Angaston on 13 April, 1947. His death notice appeared in The Advertiser of 19 April: “ F.P. Glatz, 60, died after a large fork had penetrated his chest and heart when he fell from a ladder in a wine vat at the wineries of Vintners.Co.Ltd. he was a veteran of the 1914-18 war and leaves a widow and one son.”
Source: www.naa;B2455; Glatz.F.P.Barcode 5099613.
www.trove.nla.gov/digitised newspapers.