George Frederick FRANCIS

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FRANCIS, George Frederick

Service Number:	W23037
Enlisted:	22 September 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	28 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Midland Junction, Western Australia, 10 October 1915
Home Town:	Midland Junction, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Rockingham, Western Australia, 11 May 1984, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

22 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W23037, 28 Infantry Battalion AMF
21 Nov 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W23037, 28 Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Darwin for Jacquinot Bay per Evangeline
14 Oct 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W23037, 28 Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Jacquinot Bay for Brisbane per River Glenelg
20 Nov 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W23037, 28 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private George Frederick Francis (Service No: W23039) enlisted in the ACMF on 22 September 1941 and served with 28th Infantry Battalion in Darwin NT (4 April 1943 - 27 February 1944 and April 1944 - 29 November 1944). Private Francis embarked from Darwin NT on 21 November 1944 for Jacquinot Bay on board USAT Evangeline - he was in Borneo until 19 October 1945. Private Francis was Discharged on 20 November 1945. He had served in the Militia (Private; Service No: 274640) from 1 April 1933 to 1 July 1935.

Born in 1915 in Midland Junction WA, George was the eighth of nine children of Henry (Harry) Edward Tulloh Francis (b1871 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Jane (Jean) Irene Crawford (b1878 in Glasgow, Scotland). Harry (an Engine Fitter) and Jean married in Scotland in 1897 and arrived in Fremantle WA in 1913 on board the Belgic. The family settled at Midland Junction WA where Harry was an Engine Fitter/Engineer.

George worked as a Labourer in Midland Junction, WA and in 1948 married Clarice Mary Humphrey (nee Curley; b1911 in Armadale, WA). George and Clarice settled in Perth WA where George worked as a Milk Carter and Fitter. In the mid 1970s they moved to Rockingham WA where George worked as a Fitter until retirement. George died in 1984 and Clarice in 2007.

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