Frederick Reinhold Reimann

Born 1889     Place Pärnu, Estonia     Ethnic origin Estonian     Religion Lutheran

Father -     Mother Reimann, Eliza

Residence before arrival at Australia served for 4 months in the Russian Navy; was shipwrecked in the barque Berthalline ca 1911 at Red Sea

Arrived at Australia

            from -     on ca 1913     per Natal     disembarked at Port Adelaide

Residence before enlistment Adelaide

Occupation 1916 labourer, 1927 jeweller

Service

service number 4501     enlisted 6.01.1916     POE Adelaide

unit 27th Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1917

final fate RTA 10.01.1918       discharged 19.03.1918 disciplinary reasons, not eligible for awards

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Residence after the war Norwood, SA

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

application for admission relatives (NAA) (Reimann Fredrick Reynolds)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

[...] the former seaman Frederick Reinhold Reimann suffered all his life as a result of his dishonourable discharge. He had been several months in France when he got ill and was transferred to London. There, he was allocated to work at Bullford Venereal Disease Hospital. Reimann, ‘being a clean living soldier’, applied for a transfer from this hospital — even back to the front — with no result. Four times he took ‘absence without leave’ from the hospital; then, as he tells it, ‘one day I was told to get ready to come back to Australia as an undesirable’ and he was discharged for disciplinary reasons. In 1933 he appealed to the military authorities: ‘As I have been victimised for over 15 years … I am asking you to give me a fair trial before any military court … where I am sure [I] can hope for a rightful discharge’. They refused to reconsider his case.

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