Noel Eugene FORREST

FORREST, Noel Eugene

Service Number: QX8803
Enlisted: 10 June 1940
Last Rank: Warrant Officer Class 2
Last Unit: 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22 July 1911
Home Town: Windsor, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Department Manager
Died: Died of Wounds, New Guinea, 10 September 1943, aged 32 years
Cemetery: Lae War Cemetery
Lae War Cemetery, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, QX8803, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion
10 Jun 1940: Enlisted
10 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Warrant Officer Class 2, QX8803, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion
10 Sep 1943: Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Noel Eugene Wales FORREST was born in Brisbane on 22nd July, 1911

His parents were David Connor FORREST & Alice Emily WALES

He married Linda Ena JOHNSON on 7th June, 1935 in St Johns Cathedral, Brisbane and she died tragically from illness 6 days later - he remarried on 8th March, 1943 to Mavis Lorraine SMITH

Noel died of wounds in New Guinea on 10th September, 1943 and is buried in the Lae Cemetery

 

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