Frederick Norman Rauchle

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RAUCHLE, Frederick Norman

Service no: 1275/4139 [1]

Place of birth: Paddington, 11 March 1898

Address: Canobolas Road, Orange

Occupation: Labourer

Next of kin: Della Rae (sister), c/- Mrs J Dillon, 19 Napier Street, Essendon, VIC

Date of enlistment: 2 March 1915

Place of enlistment: Liverpool

Age at enlistment: 17

Fate: Embarked HMAT Ceramic A40, Melbourne 25 June 1915. Transferred 4th Field as sapper 12 August 1915. Admitted 6th Field Ambulance 21 October 1915. Discharged 25 October 1915. Admitted Floriana Hospital 2 November 1915. Discharged from St Barnabas Malta and Arans to lines of communication per Sirula 13 February 1916. Rejoined unit from hospital 5 March 1916. Loss of 28 days’ pay for being absent from parade, riotous and disorderly conduct in street and billets 2 March 1917. Appointed Lance Corporal France 18 August 1917. Reverted to rank of sapper at own request France 20 August 1917. Appointed Lance Corporal 4th Field Coy Engineers 18 February 1918. Returned to Australia 2 March 1919 via Derbyshire.

Date of death: 4 June 1987

Buried: Orange Cemetery, Church of England Old Section 1 Row 6 No 4


Frederick Norman Rauchle received the highest award from the King of Belgium, the Croix de Guerre. His citation read:

For wonderful daring and coolness under shell fire and conspicuous devotion to duty. This NCO has done consistently good work throughout the recent campaign and has on several occasions
rescued officers and men under heavy shell fire. He has always set a fine example for his comrades in action.

He was also nominated for a Military Medal:

On 4th May 1918, between Fouilloy and Villers Bretonnaux, this NCO displayed the utmost contempt for a terrific bombardment, by S.9 H.E. Shells, of recently vacated gun pits
in the vicinity of which the Company is bivouacked. He rescued a badly wounded man from a wrecked dugout, and carried him away to comparative safety.
It was an act of great gallantry, and a splendid example of pluck.
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