Andre Adolphe Charles KOELLA / KELLA [1885-1946]
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Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-04-05 16:57
Sex:
Male
Status:
Deceased
Connections:
- Andre Adolphe Charles KOELLA / KELLA [1885-1946] spouse of Ethel KELLA [1885-1970]
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Andre Adolphe Charles Koella 1 July 1885 - 14 January1946
Victoria Australia Index of Naturalisations 17 October 1912
Andre Adolphe Charles Koella age 27 Native place Switzerland
Australia Register of Seamen
Andre Adolphe Charles Koella born 1 July 1885 Switzerland
Marriage
Andre A C Koella married Ethel R Frost in Manly New South Wales Australia in 1913
He appears in Australian Electoral Register 1914 at 8 Dixon Street Prahran Gardens, Balaclava, Victoria occupation master mariner. Ethel Recarder(sic) Koella is listed at the same address.
World War II Seamens Roll of Honour
Andre Adolphe Charles Koella age 65 born 1885 died 14 January 1946 in the UK
Commonwealth War Graves Records
Andrew Charles Kella (sic) Merchant Navy, Master of S.S.Tinley (Hong Kong) died 14 January 1946 age 60 . Son of Charles and Sophie Koella and husband of Ethel Kella of Randwick Sydney
UK British Army and Navy Records
A C Kella Captain in Merchant Navy died 14 January 1946 at the Royal Naval Hospital Sydney Australia . Cause of death pulmonary tuberculosis
Obvious discrepancies in records relating to the same person. Beside the name Kella in the CWGC records is a large red circular mark possibly indicating an error. His CWGC headstone in Sydney War Cemetery gives his wife's name as Edith Ricarda Kella and birth date 1886