The War Ministry · Records Office · Roll for 1840
Lieutenant Magnus Vollfeld Record no. 005669 · The 3rd Marsh Regiment · enemy action, 27 July 1840
War Ministry · Records OfficeRecord no. 005669
Record of service
- Name
- Magnus Vollfeld
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Regiment
- The 3rd Marsh Regiment, depot at Kessel
- Date of loss
- 27 July 1840
- Cause
- enemy action
- Action
- Not attributed to a named action; lost on the Line
- Age at loss
- 21
- Regiment, same day
- 1 on the roll
- Published
- The Schwartzistan Herald, 27 July 1840
1. The record is compiled from the regimental return and the Records Office register. 2. The cause of loss is entered as enemy action. 3. The name stands on the roll for the year and is read at Victory Square. 4. No further particulars are published, under the Press Act.
For conduct on the Line, gazetted by the War Ministry. For holding a post on the Line through a night of enemy action. Gazetted; the decoration was presented to the next of kin at the depot.
Civil particulars
- Born
- 10 September 1818, at Hollwald, The Sudmark
- Civil occupation
- labourer
- Register
- National Archive entry
Before service the above-named is entered in the civil register as a labourer.
Next of kin
| father | Emil Vollfeld | born 1782, died 1854 | brewer | |
| mother | Marit Tolmann | born 1798, died 1872 | clerk |
The persons entered above are the next of kin as given by the above-named on entering the regiment, corrected against the civil register.
Pension: the Ministry's pension under the War Widows Act and the Pensions Act is paid to the next of kin entered above, at the rate for the rank, from the first quarter-day after the date of loss.