Herman Stiefvater

Service number: 405

Rank: Lance-Corporal

Unit: Naval and Military Expeditionary Force

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Herman Stiefvater was born at Neutral Bay in 1894 and was a clerk. He enlisted on 11 August 1914, giving as next of kin his father, at Kent Street, Sydney.

He embarked on 19 August 1914, and served with C Company of the Naval and Military Expeditionary Force to Rabaul. He was possibly promoted to Lance-Corporal. He was discharged, time expired, on 4 March 1915, and does not seem to have re-enlisted thereafter.

Before the war he was a swimmer with Manly Amateur Swimming Club, and played rugby with the Manly Life Savers club. His name appears on the Manly Life Savers Club Roll of Honour.