MARINO, Joseph
| Service Numbers: | V74048, VX65093, VX65093, |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/12th Field Regiment |
| Born: | Glasgow, Scotland, 19 May 1920 |
| Home Town: | Trafalgar, Baw Baw, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butter Packer |
| Died: | Blackrock, Victoria, Australia, 24 July 1969, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Korumburra Civil Cemetery, Victoria The Victorian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 21 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V74048, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| 20 Nov 1941: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V74048, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
| 21 Nov 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX65093, 2nd/12th Field Regiment | |
| 22 Aug 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX65093, 2nd/12th Field Regiment, embarked for Suez | |
| 28 Feb 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX65093,, 2nd/12th Field Regiment, embarked Suez for Sydney | |
| 1 Aug 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX65093, 2nd/12th Field Regiment, embarked Cairns for Milne Bay on board HT Allan | |
| 26 Mar 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX65093, 2nd/12th Field Regiment, embarked Townsville for Morotai on board Frederick Lykes en route for service at Brunei Bay | |
| 17 Jan 1946: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX65093, 2nd/12th Field Regiment, embarked Labuan for Brisbane on board MV Reynella | |
| 29 Mar 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX65093, 2nd/12th Field Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Joseph Marino (Service No:VX65093) initially served in the ACMF (Private; Service No:V74048) with 114 Reserve Motor Transport Coy from 21 August 1940 to 20 November 1941. Private Marino served with 2/12 Field Regiment as a Gunner in the Middle East (22 August 1942 - 28 February 1943), in New Guinea (1 August 1943 - 7 March 1944) and in Borneo (Morotai, Brunei Bay, Labuan; 26 April 1945 - 17 January 1946) and was hospitalised on several occasions with Malaria. Private Marino was attached to 2/12 Field Regiment at Discharge on 29 March 1946. His father and three brothers also served in WWII.
Joe was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1920, eldest of five children of Phillip Marino (b1892 in Edinburgh, Scotland) and Annie Grace Jack (b1893 in Innerleven, Fifeshire, Scotland) Phillip (a Labourer) and Annie (a Spinner) married in 1920 in Edinburgh, where they raised their family and Phillip was a Labourer. Phillip had served with the Bristish Army in France (1914 - 1920; Corporal; Regimental No:721). In 1928 Phillip and Annie immigrated to Melbourne, Victoria, arriving with their five children on board the Demosthenes. The family settled in Trafalgar, Victoria where Phillip was a Labourer. He served in the ACMF in WWII.
Joe worked as a Butter Packer in Trafalgar before enlsiting in the Army, and following his Discharge, returned to Trafalgar. He was working as a Packer in 1954 when he married Bettine (Betty) Mary Barton (b1921 in Leongatha, Victoria) - Betty was working in Korumburra as a Clerk. By the late 1950s Joe and Betty had settled in Melbourne, where Joe was a Storekeeper and Storeman, Joe died in 1969 and, following his death, Betty later remarried and died in Leongatha in 2010.
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