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DAY, Arthur Gordon

Service Numbers:	Q122767, 15042, QX49330, 15022
Enlisted:	25 February 1943, Tenterfield, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	24th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, 8 July 1923
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Fortitude Valley State School and Myora Mission School
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Natural causes (kidney failure), Brisbane, Queensland , 15 January 2015, aged 91 years
Cemetery:	Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane Grave Location: LAWN-L16-40, Lawn 16/Grave 40. Also his Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Wall 68/Row A; at the Queensland Garden of Remembrance (within Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery).
Memorials:

World War 2 Service

25 Feb 1943:	Involvement Private, Q122767, also QX49330 & 15042 - died 15 Jan 2015 (C'Mail) 15042 is Malayasian Emergency 1959-66
25 Feb 1943:	Enlisted Private, QX49330, Tenterfield, New South Wales
25 Feb 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 15042
26 Feb 1943:	Involvement Private, QX49330, also Q122767 &15042 - died 15 Jan 2015 (C'Mail) - 15042 is Malayan Emergency 1959-66
4 Feb 1946:	Discharged Private, QX49330, 24th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
4 Feb 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 15042

Malayan Emergency Service

1 Jan 1959:	Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 15022

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Biography contributed by Marlene Kerr

A proud indigenous Quandamooka man