John Berndt

Johannes Carl Berndt was my grandfather. Arriving from Halle in Saxony with his parents in the 1880s the family assimilated as quickly as possible, dropping the Lutheran faith in favour of Anglicanism and becoming naturalised. J C Berndt sent his sons to a prestigious private school. This cartoon of him appeared in the local Newspaper in 1930. I found it pasted in the family scrapbook. The family began keeping the scrapbook in 1914, and much of it relates to the first world war. He ran a jewellery business in Adelaide for many years. He was a passionate fisherman, an interest he passed on to my father.