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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Richmond
• Land Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Subiaco, Western Australia
• Family Son of Jens Christian and Anna Maria Appel, of 72, Nicholson Rd., Subiaco, Western Australia; engaged to Margaret Fairweather, a fellow student;
• Education Subiaco State School; Aquinas College in Perth;
• Profession University engineering
• Extra info Cricket and football player;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 21 August 1915, Perth, Western Australia
• Service number 3419
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 6th Field Coy. Australian Engineers
• Other data related to military career Embarked Sydney 24 November 1915; to France March 1916; to be Lance Corporal 1 August 1917

Death

• Wounded 19 September 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds abdomen and buttock, n° 17 CCS at 7.30 pm;
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIX - A - 5A

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