Vincent Patrick MAHER

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MAHER, Vincent Patrick

Service Number:	QX17865
Enlisted:	13 January 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Rockhampton, QLD, 23 March 1910
Home Town:	Mackay, Mackay, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Engine Driver
Died:	Brisbane, QLD, 19 May 1979, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Hemmant Cemetery and Crematorium, Brisbane, Queensland 500 Hemmant & Tingalpa Road Hemmant 4174 Location: LAWN-5-529
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World War 2 Service

13 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX17865
13 Nov 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX17865

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sapper Vincent Patrick Maher (Service No:QX17865) enlisted in the Australian Army on 13 January 1941 and was a Private (classified Blacksmith) attached to 31 Australian Workshops Coy. He served in Darwin NT (28 March 1943 - June 1943) and also served a Detachment with NT Railways. Sapper Maher served in New Guinea on two occasions - 17 October 1943 to 19 March 1944 and 12 July 1945 to 5 August 1945. Sapper Maher was attached to 2/11 Field Coy RAE when he was Discharged on 13 November 1945.

Born in 1910 in Rockhampton QLD, Vincent was the eldest of five children of Daniel Maher (b1873 in Rockhampton, QLD) and Anne (Annie) Adams (b1879 in Rockhampton, QLD). Daniel was working as a Stockman on Hillview Farm at Duaringa nr Rockhampton, QLD when he and Annie married in 1909. They lived in Duaringa, Mount Larcombe and Rockhampton where Daniel worked as a Grazier and Labourer.

Vincent started work as a Labourer in Gladstone, QLD and was an Engine Driver when he enlisted in the Army - the same year he married Hazel Thelma Blatchly (b1922 in Brisbane, QLD) - Hazel died in 1943. In 1949 Vincent was working as an Engine Driver in Brisbane QLD and in 1951 married his second wife Audrey May Morton (nee Edwards; b1915 in Bulimba, QLD) - Audrey was a Widow. Vincent and Audrey settled in Brisbane, QLD where Vincent was a Waterside Worker. Following Audrey's death in 1955, Vincent moved to Gladstone, QLD where he was a Waterside Worker before returning to the same work in Brisbane. Vincent died in 1979.

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