Thomas Harold Marriner CURWEN

CURWEN, Thomas Harold Marriner

Service Number: VX1210
Enlisted: 20 October 1939
Last Rank: Staff Sergeant
Last Unit: 2/123 Brigade Ordnance Field Park
Born: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 20 February 1917
Home Town: Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Motor Mechanic
Died: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 16 July 1990, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Castlebrook Memorial Park
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World War 2 Service

20 Oct 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, VX1210, 2/123 Brigade Ordnance Field Park
20 Oct 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, VX1210
29 Nov 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, VX1210, 2/123 Brigade Ordnance Field Park
29 Nov 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, VX1210
Date unknown: Involvement Staff Sergeant, VX1210, 2/123 Brigade Ordnance Field Park

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Thomas was the third of eleven children of Walter Curwen (born 1891 in Lancashire, England) and Emma Wainwright (born 1892 in Lancashire, England). Walter (a Labourer) arrived in Brisbane, QLD in March 1911 on board the Suffolk and Emma arrived in Brisbane, QLD in September 1906 on board the Ormuz. Walter was a Coal Miner when he and Emma married in 1912 in Ipswich, QLD and they lived briefly in Howard, Wide Bay, QLD before settling in Bundamba, Ipswich, QLD. Walter and Emma later lived at Esk on the Darling Downs, Goomerri in Wide Bay, and Murgon in QLD and at Emmaville, Clarence River and Bundarra in NSW.  Walter worked as a Bootmaker and Labourer.

Thomas was a Motor Mechanic in Melbourne, Victoria when he enlisted in the Australian Army (Service No:VX1210). He was a Staff Sergeant attached to 2/123 Brigade Workshops (Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) when he was Discharged in November 1945. 

In 1950 Thomas was a Motor Mechanic in Sydney, NSW when he married Marjorie Norma Riley (born 1926 in Sydney, NSW) - Marjorie was a Postal Assistant. Thomas and Marjorie settled in Sydney, NSW where Thomas was a Motor Mechanic. He died in 1990 and Marjorie in 2001. 

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