Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 17/01/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 31/03/1916
- Place of Enlistment
- Cootamundra NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Naas ACT
- Address (at enlistment)
- Bungendore NSW (previously Naas ACT)
- Occupation
- Boundary rider
- Next of Kin
- Elizabeth Oldfield (wife), Bungendore NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 1005
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- Depot
Notes
Oldfield was the brother of Edward and Walter Oldfield. He was probably born at Naas, the eldest son of Joseph Matthew and Elizabeth Oldfield of Top Naas. He married Elizabeth Nash in 1910 in Bungendore and they had three children. After he enlisted his wife Elizabeth wrote to Officer in Charge of the Military Camp, Goulburn complaining she did not give consent for her husband to enlist. She had just been discharged from Gladesville Hospital and had three children to look after on £1/15/0 per week. For that reason Oldfield was discharged in March 1916. He died on 21 November 1959 in Queanbeyan and is buried in Woden Cemetery.
Description - height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 168 pounds, chest 36 inches, dark complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Catholic, teeth barely sufficient.
Sources
Peter Procter, 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan', Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001 (p.245)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)