John Thomas QUINN

QUINN, John Thomas

    Service Number: 37
    Enlisted: 24 August 1914, Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria
    Last Rank: Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant
    Last Unit: 2nd Pioneer Battalion
    Born: Rokewood, Victoria, Australia, 1884
    Home Town: Camperdown, Corangamite, Victoria
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Grocer
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    World War 1 Service

    24 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 37, Headquarters Australian Imperial Force (AIF), Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria
    22 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 37, Headquarters Staff, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: ''
    22 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 37, Headquarters Staff, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne
    6 Aug 1915: Transferred AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2nd Light Horse Regiment
    9 Mar 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, From 2nd Light Horse Regiment
    9 Nov 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, 37, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, Wounds to the right buttock and back. Transferred to England aboard HS Gloucester Castle on 27 November 1916
    11 Aug 1920: Discharged AIF WW1, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, 37, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of Michael Quinn and Mary Catherine Quinn nee Kennedy of Manifold Street, Camperdown, Victoria. 

    Returned to Australia on 12 May 1920 aboard HT Zealandia.

    Medals: Meritorious Service Medal. London Gazette on 
    22 February 1919, page 2702, position 16 and Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 June 1919,
    page 1018, position 17; 1914 1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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