Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 05/02/1917
- Date of Discharge
- 27/03/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Queanbeyan NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 06/03/1880
- Place of Birth
- Majura ACT
- Address (at enlistment)
- Captains Flat NSW (previously Majura ACT)
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Next of Kin
- Mildred Oldfield (wife), Captains Flat NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 2422
- Final Rank
- Trooper
- Final Unit
- Imperial Camel Corps AIF
Commemoration
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Goulburn War Memorial & Museum, Rocky Hill
Notes
Albert Oldfield was probably born at Majura even though his service file states his place of birth as Kiandra. He was a married farmer in the Captains Flat area when he enlisted in February 1917 at Queanbeyan. He embarked for Egypt in February 1917 but was hospitalised almost continuously for the next two years until he returned to Australia and was discharged medically unfit on 27 March 1919. Oldfield died in Goulburn on 10 August 1925.
Description - height 5 feet 6 inches, weight 145 pounds, chest 33½-36 inches, ruddy complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, Church of England, scars on his right shin and above left eyebrow.
Sources
AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Queanbeyan Age - 27 March 1917, 21 February 1919