ARNOLD, Max
| Service Numbers: | QX46009, Q116441 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 December 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11 Field Regiment AMF |
| Born: | Mareeba, Queensland, Australia, 13 January 1922 |
| Home Town: | Cairns, Cairns, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
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World War 2 Service
| 18 Dec 1941: | Involvement Gunner, Q116441, also QX46009 | |
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| 18 Dec 1941: | Involvement Gunner, QX46009, also Q116441 | |
| 18 Dec 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 18 Dec 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX46009, 11 Field Regiment AMF | |
| 22 Feb 1943: | Discharged | |
| 22 Dec 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX46009, 11 Field Regiment AMF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Max was the youngest of six children of Louis Harold Arnold (born 1874 in Bombala, NSW) and Henrietta Violet Bollman (born 1878 in Glebe, NSW). Louis and Henrietta married at Eden in NSW in 1900 and moved to Cairns in QLD in 1908 on board the SS Wodonga with their three children. The family lived in Atherton and Mareebain before settling in Cairns where Louis worked as a Land Ranger.
Max married Lorna Edna Fry (born 1924 in Cairns, QLD) in December 1940 in Cairns, and in December 1941 he enlisted with the Australian Army, serving as a Gunner (Service Nos: Q116441/QX46009) with 11 Field Regiment. Brothers-in-Law - Christopher James Fry (Service No: Q143301), Stanley Phillip Fry (Service No: Q116397), Harold Herbert Bird (Service No: 1766) and Alan Vernon Dickfos (Service Nos: Q122294/QX49525) also served in WWII.
Discharged in December 1943, Max and Lorna settled in Cairns where Max was a Labourer. In 1946, he and wife Lorna were Best Man and Matron of Honoor at the wedding of Myrtle Fry and Alan Vernon Dickfos.
Max was working as a Glazier in 1954 when wife Lorna died at Aeroglen in Cairns. He continued to live in Cairns, working at the sawmill until the mid 1970s when he moved to Charters Towers, where he worked as an Assistant Sampler at the Greenvale Nicklel Mine. According to Sam Arnold, Max was 'a tough man and an excellent bushman. He died in Cairns (around 2012) in the company of his best friend and brother Gus'.