Private Archibald Robert  Hoffman, QX10825

Private Archibald Robert Hoffman, QX10825[1, 2, 3]

Male 1900 - 1944  (43 years)

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  • Name Archibald Robert Hoffman 
    Prefix Private 
    Suffix QX10825 
    Born 14 May 1900  Theebine, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Queensland Electoral Roll 1925  Gunalda, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    QUEENSLAND ELECTORAL ROLL 1925
    Archibald Robert Hoffman and Olive Beatrice on the Qld. Electoral roll
    Queensland Electoral Roll 1925: Division of Wide Bay: Division of Tiaro.
    Hoffman, Archabald Robert: Residence: Maryvale, Gunalda: Occupation: Labourer.


     
    Queensland Electoral Roll 1936  Tiaro Find all individuals with events at this location 

    Queensland Electoral Roll 1936: Division of Wide Bay: Division of Tiaro South.
    1306:Hoffman, Archabald Robert: Residence: Tiaro: Occupation: Labourer.
    13310 
    Enlistment 21 Jan 1939  Tiaro Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Attestation of Persons Voluntarily Enlisted in the Militia Forces.
    HOFFMAN, ARCHIBALD ROBERT ; Birthplace: THEEBINE, QLD.: 14 May 1900: Occupation: Contractor: Residential Adress: TIARO: Army Number: 470010: joined on 21.01.1939: Unit: 47th. Batiliom: Next of Kin:OLIVE HOFFMAN, Tiaro: Wife: Enlisted: 21.01.1939: Discharged: 20. 10. 1939: Total Service: 273 days. 47th. Batalion 
    Military 21 May 1943  Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Dvr. A. R. Hoffman Prisoner of War

    Mrs. A. R. Hoffman,Tiaro, has been officially advised that her husband, Driver Archibald Robert Hoffman, of the A.I.F.., who was previously reported missing, is now a prisoner of war in Malaya. This is the first information that Mrs. Hoffman has had in 15 months of her husband's whereabouts. Driver Hoffman has a family of five children, the eldest of whom is 14.

    Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, Queensland, Friday, 21 May 1943 
    Military 1940 , 15 July - 21 Jan 1944 
    WW2 NOMINAL ROLL:
    Service Record:
    HOFFMAN, ARCHIBALD ROBERT: Service: Australian Army: Service Number: QX10825: Date of Birth: 14 May 1900: Place of Birth: MARYBOROUGH, QLD. Date of Enlistment: 15 Jul. 1940: Locality on Enlistment: TIARO, QLD.: Place of Enlistment: MARYBOROUGH, QLD.: Next of Kin: HOFFMAN, OLIVE:
    Date of Death: 21 Jan. 1944: Rank: Private: Posting: on Death: 22 Aust COY AASCORPS: Prisoner of War: Yes: Roll of Honour: TIARO, QLD 
    Died 21 Jan 1944  Thailand-Burma Railway, Siam/ Thailand Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • QX10825
      Private
      Hoffman, Archibald Robert
      Australian Army Service Corps
      Nationality
      Australian
      Japanese POW
      Died
      Age: 43
      Date of Death: 1944/01/21
      Place of Death: Thailand-Burma Railway
      Cause of Death:
      Source: CWGC
      Memorial 1. C. 75.
      Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
      "We will remember them"

      His death was registered in 1946
      1946/003431, War Death [Queensland Death Register].
    Death 5 Nov 1944  Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death of Dvr. Hoffman in Siam Prison Camp
    Official notification has been received of the death through illness while a prisoner of war in Siam of Dvr. A. R. Hoffman, whose wife and family of five children reside at Tiaro. Dvr. Hoffman was a member of the 47th Battalion for 18 months before the outbreak of war. He joined the A.I.F. five years ago and was attached to the A.S.C. 8th. Division. He was taken prisoner of war when Singapore fell. He worked on the Thailand railway and died in Siam, on January 21, 1944.
    Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, Queensland, Monday, 5 November 1944 
    In Memorium 15 Oct 1945  Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    ROLL OF HONOUR
    HOFFMAN.-In proud and loving memory of my dear husband and our loving father, QX10825 Dvr. Archibald R. Hoffman, who died of illness in Siam on January 21, 1944, whilst prisoner of war.
    "Deeply Mourned."
    Inserted by his loving wife, Olive, and children, Berol, Spencer, Gloria, Rex and Lester.
    Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, Queensland, Monday, 15 October 1945 
    In Memorium 21 Jan 1946  Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    ROLL OF HONOUR
    HOFFMAN.-In proud and loving memory of Dvr. A. R. Hoffman (Arch), who died of illness while P.O.W. in Siam, January 21, 1944. He gave his life for his country.
    And the ones he loved so dear;
    We shall remember you.
    Inserted by (Brother Jack and family. John AIF. returned), May, Ruby, Myrtle and Marjorie.

    HOFFMAN-Treasured memories of Dviver. A. R. .Hoffman (Arch) who died of illness in Siam while POW, January 21. 1944.
    When silent nighls are falling.
    It is then we think of you.
    And perhaps within the shadows, Arch, Always remembered by May, Arthur and Keith.
    Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, Queensland, Monday, 21 January 1946  
    In Memorium 1 Jul 2012  The Gundiah Gazette Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Tiaro's Sons
    Archibald Robert Hoffman
    QX10825 Private, Australian Army.
    Archie Hoffman was born on the 14th
    May 1900 in Maryborough and was employed
    by Tiaro Shire Council. He was
    an active tennis player in the area and
    a member of the Wattlebae Tennis club
    in Tiaro. Archie married Olive Ashford
    daughter of Mr T.E Ashford of Harvey
    Siding, they had 5 children, Spencer,
    Gloria, Beryl, Lester and Rex.
    Archie enlisted in the Army in July 1940
    and ended up becoming a prisoner of
    war in Malaya and died as a result of injuries whilst working on the infamous
    Burma railway on the 21st January 1944.
    LEST WE FORGET
    July 2012-The Gundiah Gazette 
    Military 1944, 21 January  Malaya & Siam [Thailand] Find all individuals with events at this location 
    ROLL of HONOUR
    ARCHIBALD ROBERT HOFFMAN: Rank: Private ( Pte): Service Number: QX10825: Unit: No. 2 COY AASC: Service Army: Conflict: 1939-1945: Date of Death: 21 January 1944: Place of Death: Siam: Cause of Death: Illness.
    Source: AWM147 Roll of Honour Cards, 1939-1945 War, 2nd. AIF ( Australian Imperial Force) and CMF ( CITIZEN MILITARY FORCE)
    AMF Prisoners of WAR and MISSING in the FAR EAST and SOUTH WEST PACIFIC ISLANDS:
    A R HOFFMAN: Service Number: QX10825; Rank: Private: Unit: 2 Company Army Service Corp.: Casualty: Prisoner of War: Location of Camp: Malaya: Source International Red Cross: Theatre of War: Malaya.

    In Memory of
    Private ARCHIBALD ROBERT HOFFMAN

    QX10825, A.I.F. 2 Coy., Australian Army Service Corps
    who died age 43
    on 21 January 1944
    Son of Herman Julius and Christine Marie Hoffman; husband of Olive Beatrice Hoffman, of Tiaro, Queensland, Australia.
    Remembered with honour
    KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
    Commemorated in perpetuity by
    the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
    HOFFMAN, Private, ARCHIBALD ROBERT, QX10825. A.I.F. 2 Coy. Australian Army Service Corps. 21st January 1944. Age 43. Son of Herman Julius and Christine Marie Hoffman; husband of Olive Beatrice Hoffman, of Tiaro, Queensland, Australia. 1. C. 75
     
    Buried Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
      Kanchanaburi War Cemetery is only a short distance from the site of the former 'Kanburi', the prisoner of war base camp through which most of the prisoners passed on their way to other camps. It was created by the Army Graves Service who transferred to it graves along the southern half of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. More than 5,000 Commonwealth and 1,800 Dutch casualties are buried or commemorated in the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by Colin St Clair Oakes.
      Kanchanaburi is 129 kilometres West-North-West of Bangkok. The Kanchanaburi Memorial is located in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, which is situated in the North-Western part of the town along Saeng Chuto Road. A Commission signpost faces the cemetery on the opposite side of the road.
      The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma (Myanmar).
      Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre.
      The Japanese aimed at completing the railway in 14 months and work began in October 1942. The line, 424 kilometres long, was completed by December 1943.
      The graves of those who died during the construction and maintenance of the Burma-Siam railway (except for the Americans, whose remains were repatriated) were transferred from camp burial grounds and isolated sites along the railway into three cemeteries at Chungkai and Kanchanaburi in Thailand and Thanbyuzayat in Myanmar.
      Thanbyuzayat became a prisoner of war administration headquarters and base camp in September 1942 and in January 1943 a base hospital was organised for the sick. The camp was close to a railway marshalling yard and workshops, and heavy casualties were sustained among the prisoners during Allied bombing raids in March and June 1943. The camp was then evacuated and the prisoners, including the sick, were marched to camps further along the line where camp hospitals were set up. For some time, however, Thanbyuzayat continued to be used as a reception centre for the groups of prisoners arriving at frequent intervals to reinforce the parties working on the line up to the Burma-Siam border. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery was created by the Army Graves Service who transferred to it all graves along the northern section of the railway, between Moulmein and Nieke.
      There are now 3,149 Commonwealth and 621 Dutch burials of the Second World war in the cemetery.
    Person ID I3908  Hickey, List, Bundesen, Thomsen, Jensen, Jessen | Thomsen
    Last Modified 4 Sep 2014 

    Father Herman Julius Hoffmann,   b. Abt 1848, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Mar 1932, Gympie Road, Tiaro, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 84 years) 
    Mother Christine Marie Thomsen,   b. 26 Oct 1855, Wassersleben, Bov Parish, Aabenraa County, Denmark Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Dec 1932, Gympie road, Tiaro, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 16 Sep 1872  Maryborough District Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1143  Group Sheet

    Family Olive Beatrice Ashford,   b. 3 Jul 1904, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1993, Gympie, Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 06 Jun 1928  Queensland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Lester Hoffman,   b. 1941, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Aug 2001, Gympie Hospital, Gympie, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years)
    Last Modified 29 Jan 2012 
    Family ID F1209  Group Sheet

  • Headstones
    Hoffman, Archibald Robert
    Hoffman, Archibald Robert

  • Sources 
    1. [S66] Mrs Laurina Collins.

    2. [S12] Qld Birth, Deaths and Marriages.

    3. [S115] Trove.


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