Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 03/05/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 16/03/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Liverpool NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Other Name(s)
- Known as 'Fred'
- Place of Birth
- Queanbeyan NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Booroomba Station via Tharwa ACT
- Occupation
- Wool traveller
- Next of Kin
- Edith Dulhunty (wife), Booroomba via Tharwa ACT
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 32965
- Final Rank
- Gunner
- Final Unit
- 1 Field Artillery Brigade AIF
Commemoration
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Notes
Fred Dulhunty was born at Dodsworth, Queanbeyan in 1882. Described as a "crack rifle and pigeon shot", he was William Farrer's assistant at 'Lambrigg' when the latter died in 1906, and was working at 'Booroomba' near Tharwa when he enlisted on 3 May 1916, just after marrying Edith McKeahnie of 'Booroomba'. From November 1917 he served with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade in France before he was wounded on the ankle by a piece of shell in October 1918, returned to Australia and was discharged on 16 March 1919. In 1920 Dulhunty successfully applied as a soldier settler for Block 30 Woden on a five year lease for 804 acres. When the lease ran out the block was redesignated as Block 24A and enlarged to 1319 acres covering parts of the modern-day suburbs of Weston, Holder, Rivett, Stirling and Waramanga. Although the new lease had a residency requirement Dulhunty continued to live at 'Booroomba'. He transferred the lease in 1926 and bought a property near Cooma, 'Mandalong', where he and his family settled. In 1954 he retired to Merimbula on the south coast of New South Wales where he died on 8 August 1967. His sons Roy and McKeahnie both served in World War 2.
Description - height 5 feet 11 inches, weight 182 pounds, chest 38-41 inches, dark complexion, blue grey eyes, brown hair, Church of England.
Sources
Archer Russell, 'William James Farrer' 1949
Peter Procter, 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan', Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001 (p.85)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
ArchivesACT - http://www.archives.act.gov.au/repatandrabbits/hubert_dulhunty
Queanbeyan Age - 15 May 1917, 21 February 1919
Queanbeyan/ Canberra Advocate - 24 October 1918