FAIRBROTHER, George Vaughan Hart
| Service Numbers: | 1400, QX13677, QP30067 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Army Ordnance Corps AIF |
| Born: | Ayr, Scotland, 12 December 1919 |
| Home Town: | South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | South Brisbane Intermediate School |
| Occupation: | Panel Beater /Clerk |
| Died: | Illness, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 29 December 1996, aged 77 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane Lawn L14-71 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 1 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 1400 | |
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| 2 Jul 1940: | Involvement QX13677, also QP30067 & 1400 | |
| 2 Jul 1940: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, QP30067, prev QX13677 also 1400- NAA digitised & (NAAQ film) | |
| 2 Jul 1940: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, also QX13677 | |
| 2 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , QX13677 | |
| 16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned | |
| 29 Oct 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 1400 | |
| 29 Oct 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 2nd/3rd Australian Army Ordnance Corps |
Non Warlike Service
| 30 Oct 1947: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), 1400 | |
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| 29 Oct 1959: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), 1400, Army Ordnance Corps AIF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
George Vaughan Hart FAIRBROTHER was born in Ayr, Scotland on 12th December, 1919
His parents were George Montague Berford FAIRBROTHER & Jane NIMMO who married on 7th May, 1918 in Wallaret, Ayrshire, Scotland
He married Audrey Margaret Norma MOSS in Queensland on 14th December, 1940
He served in the Australian Army and after the war re-enlisted in the regular amy and was discharged on 29th October, 1959 - he was missing and taken as a prisoner of war on 16th February, 1942 when serving in the 2nd 10th Field Regiment and was recovered on 21st September, 1945
George died in Brisbane on 29th December, 1996 - he was buried in Mount Gravatt Cemetery
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