Ernest Alfred Hvitfelt

Alias Hyitfelt (marriage), Whitfield (later used)

Born 4.02.1896    Place Abo (Turku), Finland     Ethnic origin Finn/Swede     Religion Lutheran

Father Swedish, sea captain      Mother Finnish

Arrived at Australia

            from Norway      on 1914    per -    disembarked at Melbourne

Residence before enlistment Gippsland, Riverina, NSW, Sydney

Occupation labourer

Service

service number 6278   enlisted 1.05.1916 POE Sydney

unit 2nd Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1917-1919      casualties WIA, 1917

awards Military Medal (LG 19/06/1919)

final fate RTA 26.07.1919       discharged 11.11.1919

Naturalisation 1920

Wife Harriet Hvitfelt (née Foskett), married in 1918 in England

Residence after the war 1927 South Kensington, 1967 Merrylands, NSW

Materials digitised naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

digitised recommendation for award (AWM)

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