Ernest Frederick POSCHALK

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POSCHALK, Ernest Frederick

Service Number:	Q273551
Enlisted:	3 February 1945
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	1st Royal Australian Engineers Training Battalion
Born:	Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 9 January 1927
Home Town:	Maryborough, Fraser Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Maryborough State School, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Junior Motor Mechanic (unemployed)
Died:	Training Accident, Kapooka, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, 21 May 1945, aged 18 years
Cemetery:	Wagga Wagga War Cemetery Plot B. Row B. Grave 12.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sapper, Q273551
3 Feb 1945:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Sapper, Q273551, 1st Royal Australian Engineers Training Battalion
17 Feb 1945:	Involvement Sapper, Q273551
17 Feb 1945:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q273551, 1st Royal Australian Engineers Training Battalion
17 Feb 1945:	Enlisted
21 May 1945:	Discharged
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q273551, 1st Royal Australian Engineers Training Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Ernest was the only child of Ernest (Snr) Augustus Poschalk (born 1902 at Kirk River in QLD) and Celia Elizabeth Cox (born 1903 in Townsville, QLD). Ernest Snr was a Clerk (Public Servant) in Townsville in 1925 when he married Celia. The family moved with Ernest Snr's job, living in Roma, Cairns, Maryborough, Brisbane and Ipswich QLD. Celia died in 1951 in Ipswich, QLD and Ernest Snr remarried.

On 3 February 1945 Ernest Jnr was an unemployed Junior Motor Mechanic living in Maryborough, QLD when he enlisted in the AMF. He was a Sapper (Service No:Q273551) with 1st Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) Training Battalion at Kapooka, QLD when he was accidentally killed by an explosion.

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