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  • PFLAUM
  • TM
  • THEODOR MILTON
  • Birdwood
  • South Australia
  • Blumberg (Birdwood)
  • Son of Theodor and Mary Jane Pflaum, of Birdwood, South Australia; Raymond, his younger brother, died as prisoner of war, 19 July 1916; his older brother Elliot survived the war;
  • Clerk

Military service

  • Enlisted 16 July 1915, Keswick
  • Second Lieutenant
  • 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 25th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
  • 5th Australian Division
  • A.I.F.
  • Assigned to the 32nd Btn; embarked November 1915; transferred to the 8th Machine Gun Coy March 1916; promoted corporal June 1916; embarked from Alexandria June 1916; promoted sergeant September 1916; transferred to 25th Machine Gun Coy February 1917; was made 2nd Lt. in England for training in bombing and handling revolvers; returned to France September 1917.

Death

  • 24 September, while supervising sending forward material from St Jaines's Trench to gun positions
  • Died of shrapnel wounds to the left thigh, compound fracture, while being transferred to n°10 CCS
  • 24 September 1917
  • 22
  • XXV - F - 2

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