Victor Rudolph OFFE

Badge Number: S3735, Sub Branch: Colonel Light Gardens
S3735

OFFE, Victor Rudolph

    Service Number: 230
    Enlisted: 20 July 1915, Keswick South Australia Australia
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 8th Machine Gun Company
    Born: Tanunda, South Australia, 30 November 1894
    Home Town: Tanunda, Barossa, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Watchmaker
    Died: Millswood, South Australia, 14 May 1979, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
    Memorials: Tanunda Roll of Honor
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    World War 1 Service

    20 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Keswick South Australia Australia
    18 Nov 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 230, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1,

    embarkation_roll: roll_number: 17 embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note:
    18 Nov 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 230, 32nd Infantry Battalion
    20 Mar 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 8th Machine Gun Company
    20 Mar 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 230, 8th Machine Gun Company
    28 Mar 1918: Discharged AIF WW1
    Date unknown: Wounded 230, 8th Machine Gun Company
    Date unknown: Involvement 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix)

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    Biography

    Discharged on the 28th of March 1918 in Australia due to a recurring string of admissions to hospital with Trench Fever while serving on the Western Front. He arrived back in Australia on the 27th of December, 1917 on HMAT Berrima (A35).

    Awarded:

    1914/15 Star: 7638

    British War Medal: 7739

    Victory Medal: 7676

    Victor Offe later moved to Victoria where he married in 1920.

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