Myrtle Gladys CARSWELL

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CARSWELL, Myrtle Gladys

Service Numbers:	Q268463, QX55556, QFX55556
Enlisted:	12 June 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/12th Australian General Hospital
Born:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 13 January 1917
Home Town:	Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Home Duties
Died:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 3 October 1968, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Gympie Cemetery, Qld
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World War 2 Service

12 Jun 1943:	Involvement Private, Q268463, on WW2NR as Q268463, QX55556 & QFX55556
12 Jun 1943:	Involvement Private, QX55556, on WW2NR as Q268463, QX55556 & QFX55556
12 Jun 1943:	Enlisted
12 Jun 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QFX55556
1 May 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QFX55556, 2nd/12th Australian General Hospital

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Myrtle was the second of six children of James William Carswell (b1886 in Gympie, QLD) and Mabel Guard (b1890 in Gympie, QLD). James (a Miner) and Mabel married in 1914 in Gympie, QLD where they settled and raised their family. James worked as a Miner and Labourer.

Myrtle enlisted in the Australian Army (AAMWS) in June 1943. She was a Private (Service Nos: QF55556/Q268463) attached to 2/12 Australian General Hospital when she was Discharged in May 1945. Brothers Gordon William (Private; Service No:Q135483) and Stanley Jack (Leading Aircraftman; Service No:151882), Brothers-in-Law Colin Ray Chapman (Service No:QX63372) and Robert Edward Nobbs (Service No:QX37890) and Sister-in-Law Dorothy June Hall (Private; Service No:NF480145) also served in WWII.

Myrtle returned to Gympie where she lived with her parents - in the Electoral Rolls Myrtle lists her employment as being with the AAMWS. Myrtle died in 1968.

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