Otto Harold Soderholm

Otto Harold Soderholm
Otto looking dapper
OTTO HAROLD SODERHOLM was born on 20 September 1891 in Abo Finland, his parents were Otto Albert Soderholm and Ida Emilia Engblom.
Otto was baptised on the 29 Sep 1891 in Kumlinge, Ahvenanmaa, Finland.
Otto arrived in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on the 1st June 1914 on the ship Gezina which arrived the day before after an tempestuous voyage from South America.
In 1916 he was living in Nirranda where he was naturalised and joined the Army and in 1917 went to war.
He married Nellie Doreen SHEPHERDSON on 24 June 1925 in Foster, Victoria. They had five children in 12 years. He died on 7 January 1953 in Alberton, Victoria, at the age of 61.

27 February 2016



Nirranda Honour Roll

There was a newspaper article I found on TROVE that led me to search for this Nirranda Honor Roll. It is the only one I could find.
The Newspaper Article was regarding the unveiling of the Honor Roll listing 100 men from the Nirranda district who were "playing their part in the Great War" and  there was a speech in the Warrnambool Standard Tuesday 5th March 1918 (pg3).
At the time of print out of the 100 men 14 had been killed and 36 wounded.
My grandfather O.H. Soderholm is in the middle row 2nd from the bottom.
He left Europe 7th July 1919 on the S.S.Chemnitz  and arrived in Melbourne on 12th August 1919.

[Otto later re-enlisted and joined WW2]
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