PHISTER, George
| Service Number: | 6547 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 June 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Pittsworth, Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia, 7 May 1898 |
| Home Town: | Millmerran, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station Hand |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, May 1994, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Millmerran War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6547, 15th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 21 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6547, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Boonah embarkation_ship_number: A36 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6547, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Boonah, Brisbane | |
| 21 Jun 1918: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 4th Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 15 Jun 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6547, 4th Machine Gun Company, per Swakopmund | |
| 15 Apr 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6547, 4th Machine Gun Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
George was the third of eight children of Robert Morrison Phister (born 1863 in Ipswich, QLD) and Janet King (born 1871 in Leyburn, QLD). In 1890 George was a Labourer when he married Janet, and they settled in Millmerran on the Darling Downs to raise their family.
In 1916 George was a Station Hand at Millmerran on the Darling Downs in QLD when he enlisted in the AIF, joining older brother Roy (Private, Service No:6551) who Died of Wounds in September 1917. George served as a Private (Service No:6547) with 15th Infantry Battalion and 4th Machine Gun Battalion. He was hospitalised with Mumps and Trench Fever, and was Discharged in April 1920. Uncle Alfred Phister (aka John Lumsden (Trooper, Service No:1437) served in the Boer War, and brothers Cyril (Private, Service No:QX1038), Clarence William (Leading Aircraftman, Service No:23633), Percy (Private, Service No:Q141487) and Gordon (Staff Sergeant, Service No:QX16310) and Brother-in-Law David George Ashlin (Sapper, Service No:29717) served in WWII. George also served in WWII (Private, Service No:Q142659) with Area 9A in 1942/1943.
Returning from the War, George worked in Millmerran as a Labourer and Proprietor of a Hairdressers, Tobacconists and Billiard Saloon. In 1923 he married Irene (Dot) Jessie Curtis (born 1899 in Leyburn, QLD) and in 1928 they moved to Grantham at Helidon on the Darling Downs where George was a Licensed Victualler and Licensee of the Coronation Hotel at Grantham. George was a Licensed Victualler/Hotel Keeper/Publican in Warwick, Chinchilla, Dalby and Brisbane QLD. Following Dot's death in 1957, George remarried - Margaret Helen - and was an Investor when he died 1994.
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