Patrick O'Grady QUIRK

QUIRK, Patrick O'Grady

Service Number: VX48296
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
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World War 2 Service

25 Jul 1940: Enlisted Private, VX48296, Caulfield, Victoria
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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Biography

"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)