BANNISTER, George
Service Number: | QX2907 |
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Enlisted: | 13 May 1940 |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 5 April 1915 |
Home Town: | Mackay, Mackay, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Ganger |
Died: | Killed in Action, Egypt, 1 September 1942, aged 27 years |
Cemetery: |
El Alamein War Cemetery A II A 6 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Lieutenant, QX2907 | |
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13 May 1940: | Enlisted | |
13 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, QX2907, 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion, Rockhampton, Qld. | |
1 Sep 1942: | Discharged | |
1 Sep 1942: | Discharged Lieutenant, QX2907, 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of George Edmund and Edith Nora Bannister, of Red Hill, Queensland, Australia.
RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL IN PERFECT PEACE HE AWAITS US ALL
News has been received by Mr and Mrs G. E. Bannister, 161 Annie Street, New Farm (formerly of Mackay), that their eldest son, Lieutenant George Bannister (27) was killed in action. He enlisted at the commencement of the war, was posted overseas on Christmas Day, 1940, and saw service in Syria
and Egypt.