Walter Edward CURWEN

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CURWEN, Walter Edward

Service Number:	NX155606
Enlisted:	24 August 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Murgon, Queensland, Australia, 23 June 1923
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Atherton, Queensland, Australia, 15 June 1991, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

24 Aug 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX155606, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
5 Jun 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX155606, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
Date unknown:	Involvement Private, NX155606, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Walter was the sixth of eleven children of Walter Curwen Snr (born 1891 in Lancashire, England) and Emma Wainwright (born 1892 in Lancashire, England). Emma immigrated with her family in 1906, arriving in Brisbane, QLD on board the Ormulz and Walter (a Labourer) immigrated in 1911, arriving in Brisbane, QLD on board the Suffolk. Walter was a Coal Miner in Ipswich, QLD when he and Emma married in 1912. They lived in several places in QLD (Howard and Goomerri in Wide Bay, Bundamba in Ipswich, Esk on the Darling Downs, and Murgon) before moving to NSW (Emmaville, Cooraki on the Clarence River, Bundarra and Sydney). Walter Snr worked as a Labourer, Coal Miner, and Bootmaker.

In 1939 Walter was working as a Labourer in Sydney, NSW when he enlisted in the ACMF as a Private (N255562) and served in New Guinea in 1942. He then enlisted in the AIF in August 1943 and was Discharged in June 1946. Walter was at RMC Duntroon in Canberra when he married Betty in October 1945. Brothers Thomas Harold Marriner (Staff Sergeant; Service No:VX1210) and Wilfred Bede (Private; Service Nos:NX179417/N461424) and Brothers-in-Law Charles Adams (Service No:NX5234); Wallace Wiggins (Service No:QX6532), Milton Hughes (Service No:130764) and Mervyn Molloy (Service Nos:QX58952/Q128385) also served in WWII.

Walter later worked as a Station Hand in Muttaburra, QLD before retiring to Cooktown and then Atherton in North QLD where he died in 1991.

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