BARTELS, Cecil Albert
Service Number: | Q116263 |
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Enlisted: | 16 May 1941 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 51 Infantry Battalion AMF |
Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 17 September 1906 |
Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 February 1973, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
16 May 1941: | Involvement Private, Q116263, 51 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
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16 May 1941: | Enlisted | |
16 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q116263, 51 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
3 Jun 1942: | Discharged | |
3 Jun 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q116263, 51 Infantry Battalion AMF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Cecil Albert Bartels (Service No:Q116263) enlisted in the ACMF on 16 May 1941. He was a Private attached to 51 Battalion when he was Discharged on 3 June 1942.
Born in 1906 in Brisbane QLD as Albert Joachim (aka Cecil Albert), Cecil was the tenth of fourteen children of Franz Heinrich Bartels (b1865 in Germany) and Caroline Schweikert (b1872 in Rawbelle, Wide Bay, QLD). Franz arrived in Sydney NSW in 1882 on board the Etna and was a Cigar Maker when he and Caroline married in Brisbane, QLD in 1894. Franz and Caroline settled in Brisbane where Franz was a Cigar Maker before moving their family to Gunyan Station in Texas, QLD in 1912 where Franz was a Farmer. In the mid 1920s Franz and Caroline returned to Brisbane and Franz resumed work as a Cigar Maker.
Cecil worked in Innisfail QLD as a Cane Cutter and Yardman at the Imperial Hotel before settling in Brisbane in the mid 1930s and working as a Labourer. Following his service in the ACMF, Cecil returned to Innisfail where he worked as a Cane Cutter/Labourer until the mid 1950s when he returned to Brisbane. Cecil married Jessie Cheyne (b1914 in Townsville, QLD) and settled in Brisbane where he worked as a Labourer until his death in 1976. Jessie died in 1982.