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Studio portrait of 2635 Corporal (Cpl) Frederick Charles Felgenhauer, 23rd Battalion, of Echuca, Vic. A farmer with two and half years in the Citizens' Military Forces (CMF) before enlisting in August 1915, Cpl Felgenhauer left Australia for Egypt with the 6th Reinforcements in October 1915. After transferring to the 57th Battalion as part of the 'doubling-up' of the AIF in March 1916, Cpl Felgenhauer arrived in France for service on the Western Front in June 1916 and was wounded in the elbow by shrapnel at Beaumetz in March 1917. Rejoining the battalion from convalesence in England in November 1917, he was wounded in the back whilst the battalion was in the line at Wytschaete, Belgium, on 24 December 1917, and rejoined his unit again in May 1918. Cpl Felgenhauer was killed by German artillery fire whilst collecting wounded American and Australian troops during the attack on the Hindenburg Line at Bellicourt, France, on 29 September 1918. He was aged 29 at the time of his death.
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Accession Number
P07815.002
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Donor K Del Beato
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