Peter Robert ANDERSON

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ANDERSON, Peter Robert

Service Number:	Q25464
Enlisted:	19 August 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 21 January 1920
Home Town:	Gympie, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor Mechanic
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 6 January 1990, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Hemmant Cemetery and Crematorium, Brisbane, Queensland
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World War 2 Service

19 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q25464
17 Mar 1941:	Involvement Private, Q25464
17 Mar 1941:	Enlisted
21 Jan 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q25464, 47 Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Townsville to Milne Bay per Duntroon
29 Jul 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q25464, 47 Infantry Battalion AMF
30 Nov 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q25464, 47 Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Brisbane to Bougainville per Cape Victory
10 Dec 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q25464, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Torokina to Rabaul per Katoomba
27 Mar 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q25464, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Rabaul to Brisbane per Toas Victory
21 May 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, Q25464

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Peter Robert Anderson (Service No:Q25464) enlisted in the ACMF on 19 August 1940 and served with 47th Infantry Battalion and 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion in New Guinea (1943/1944) and Bougainville (1944/1946). Private Anderson was Discharged on 21 May 1946.

Born in Gympie QLD in 1920, Peter was the eldest son of Peter Robinson Anderson (b1887 in Perthshire, Scotland) and Elizabeth Ann Hebbard (nee Barlow; b1882 in Bundaberg, QLD). Peter Snr (a Farmer) and Elizabeth married in 1920 in Gympie QLD and lived in Murgon and Gympie where they raised their family and Peter was a Labourer.

Peter was working as a Motor Mechanic in Gympie before his enlistment in the ACMF and in 1946 married Isabel Jean O'Sullivan (b1925 in Gympie, QLD). Peter and Isabel lived in Gympie QLD until the mid 1950s when they moved to Brisbane - Peter worked as a Motor Mechanic. Peter died in 1990 and Isabel in 2000.

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