Victor Conradsdorf Morisset SELLHEIM CB CMG MID**

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SELLHEIM, Victor Conradsdorf Morisset

Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	15 August 1915, Professional soldier, Boer War.
Last Rank:	Brigadier General
Last Unit:	Headquarters Staff
Born:	Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 12 May 1866
Home Town:	Toorak, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Norfolk Island, Australia , 25 January 1928, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Norfolk Island Cemetery, Kingston, Norfolk Island
Memorials:	Brisbane Grammar School Boer War Honour Board

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Major, Special Service Officers
20 Oct 1899:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Major, Special Service Officers, Selected by War Office and embarked 20 Oct 1899 from Southampton UK aboard Harlech Castle for South Africa. He was attached to the Victorian Mounted Rifles 17 Dec 1899, and then to 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry 13 Jan 1900.

World War 1 Service

22 Oct 1914:	Involvement Colonel, Headquarters Staff, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: ''
22 Oct 1914:	Embarked Colonel, Headquarters Staff, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne
15 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Major, 1st Division Headquarters, Professional soldier, Boer War.
2 Nov 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Brigadier General, Headquarters Staff

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Major-General Victor Conradsdorf Morisset Sellheim, C.B., C.M.G. died on Wednesday at Norfolk Island, where he was Administrator, aged 61. General Sellheim served 1st both in the South African War and the Great War. Before his appointment as Administrator of Norfolk Island he was widely-known as Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth Military Forces.
He went to the Great War as Assistant Adjutant-General and Quartermaster-General to the 1st Division A.I.F., and was General Officer Commanding of A.I.F. troops in Egypt from January, 1915, to May, 1916. After the Gallipoli campaign he was Commandant of Administrative Headquarters, London, and G.O.C. of Australians in England.

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