Part 1 - Norwegian research I've been given the task at Genealogy Sunshine Coast to research the origins of a man that appears in a couple of our research projects of late and thought I would post my efforts as I go along. Reidar Toralf Bakke was a young Norwegian man living in Australia when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on the 17th April 1916. In his service record, availabl e from the National Archives of Australia, he states he was born in Christiania (Oslo) Norway, is a Norwegian subject, age 24 and a farm labourer. He lists his next of kin as his father, Adolf Bakke , of 17 Holand Gaden, Christiania, Norway. The records tell us that Reidar was of fair complexion, light blue eyes, fair hair, 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighed 9 stone and had some tattoos on his arms. Reidar fought in France and was wounded in action (severe gunshot wound in the right arm) in October 1917 and returned to Australia for discharge in April 1918. He died in 1947 and was bur...
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