Lindsay Claude BRIEN

BRIEN, Lindsay Claude

Service Number: NX12298
Enlisted: 4 January 1940
Last Rank: Major
Last Unit: 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
Born: Cowra, New South Wales, Australia, 11 February 1906
Home Town: Temora, Temora Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 4 December 1948, aged 42 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

4 Jan 1940: Enlisted NX12298
4 Jan 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Major, NX12298
5 May 1942: Involvement Captain, NX12298, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion, El Alamein, Mentioned in Despatches.
11 Jul 1945: Discharged Major, NX12298, Posting at discharge - P.S.L. (Aust Inf).
11 Jul 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Major, NX12298
Date unknown: Involvement Major, NX12298, 2nd/17th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Jeffrey Crisdale

Mentioned In Despatches (GO 82, 31 Aug 1943) - For Operations in the Western Desert between 1 May - 22 Oct 1942 (Tel el Eisa, El Alamein)

Died at Repatriation Hospital, Concord, (formerly of Wollongong and Cowra).

Biography contributed by Jeffrey Crisdale

El Alamein (WIA).