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QUIRK, Patrick O'Grady
Personal Details
Service Number: | VX48296 |
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Enlisted: | 25 July 1940 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | 2nd/10th Ordnance Field Park |
Born: | Heathcote, Victoria, Australia, 16 December 1904 |
Home Town: | Rushworth, Campaspe, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Natural Causes, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 March 1987, aged 82 years |
Cemetery: |
Rushworth Public Cemetery, Victoria |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
25 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Private, VX48296, Caulfield, Victoria | |
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25 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, VX48296, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion | |
26 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, VX48296, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore | |
30 Sep 1941: | Promoted Sergeant, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion | |
16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore | |
17 Jan 1946: | Discharged Sergeant, VX48296, 2nd/10th Ordnance Field Park | |
17 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, VX48296, 2nd/29th Infantry Battalion |
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"One of the Australians who were inmates of Changi Goal as prisoner-of-war of the Japanese, and who was with the forestry group at its beginning and worked right through. Sergeant Paddy Quirk (VX48296), a member of the Changi Forestry Unit." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)