NAA: A1, 1915/8949
Spangler, Augusta Caroline
Digital copy - 32880
| Occupation as written | Housewife |
| Standardised occupation | DS00: Domestic service - Domestic duties |
| Application received | 17 May 1915 |
| Application status |
Approved |
| Official | LTF |
| Date of approval or denial | 1 Jul 1915 |
| If rejected, why? | |
| Birthplace as written | Hanover, Germany |
| Modern country | Germany |
| Age on application | 80 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 14 |
| Port of Departure | None |
| Port of Arrival | Port Adelaide |
| Date of arrival | 1 Jan 1849 |
| Name of ship | SS Washington |
| Voyage | Washington (1849-01-01) |
| Address in Australia | Napier Street,
Stawell |
| Address State | Victoria |
| Time at address | 7 years |
| Previous address 1 | Stawell |
| Address State | Victoria |
| Time at address | 60 years |
| Married | Widow |
| Children | Yes |
1 son
3 daughters |
| Name of reference | David Usher |
| Occupation of reference | Officer of Police, Victoria |
| Marginalia description | |
| Police report attached | Yes |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | Pension |
| Other information | |
DEA Memorandum, Foemander, 3/6/15, p.2: 80, widow. German husb. res 66 yrs. Local police suggest deferring as she has ‘always been regarded as a very patriotic German and that time has not diminished her affection for the Fatherland’. Handwritten Note at bottom saying referred to minister because of her ‘extreme age’. Despite being heard to describe someone dying at the hands of the Germans as ‘serves them right’, she is Approved, July 1915