The Roll of Honour circular for Frederick (Friedrich) Hund, as completed by his mother Mary Kornz in 1930, records:
the deceased was a fine type of youth and took a prominent part in all athletic games. He was a good cricketer and soccer footballer representing Cawdor and the Railway Clubs.
Frederick Hund was born in Toowoomba and raised in Cawdor, about 10 kilometres to the north. His mother, born Maria Beh, later Mary Hund, was Queensland-born of German parents, while his father Gottlob was of unknown German speaking origins.
By the time Hund enlisted in 1916, he was 21 years old and working as a clerk for the Railway Department in Toowoomba. Contemporary newspapers confirm he played cricket for Cawdor in 1911 in his mid-teens, and later for Railways but his soccer exploits remain unrecorded other than by his mother. Junior soccer was under-reported in the Toowoomba region during the 1920s. Cawdor state school played soccer early in the decade and nearby Kleinton had a strong club before the war, so the sport was available to Hund.
Hund enlisted in October 1914 and left Queensland three weeks later. The ship was quarantined at Fremantle for unknown reasons, and it took two months before he resumed his journey. Hund spent April and July 1915 training in England. He reached France in August and was attached to the 51st Battalion, but was killed in Passchendaele, Belgium on 20 October. The war graves audit in the early 1920s confirmed he was buried at the Passchendaele New British Cemetery.
Hund’s military record also includes the will he was asked to fill out in July 1917. In answer to the question to name who to bequeath his estate, Hund wrote “I hereby declare that I do not desire to make a will.” This was witnessed by two other soldiers. Three months later he was dead.
His death was reported in the Toowoomba Chronicle on 12 November 1917, which celebrated his cricketing talents. It revealed while at Salisbury, Hund had rejected a place in college to become a commissioned officer to get to the front quicker.
Gottlob Hund died in 1920, and Mary later remarried to a Frederick Konz or Kornz.