Kevin Bryan MCMAHON

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MCMAHON, Kevin Bryan

Service Numbers:	S45768, SX28881
Enlisted:	16 July 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	4th Anti Malaria Control Unit
Born:	Port Pirie, South Australia, 23 August 1923
Home Town:	Flinders Park, Charles Sturt, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Stage Performer and Small Goods Salesman
Died:	Adelaide, South Australia, 15 March 1993, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Smithfield Memorial Park
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World War 2 Service

16 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S45768, 3 Infantry Battalion AMF
9 Mar 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S45768, 3rd Infantry Training Battalion
10 Mar 1943:	Involvement Corporal, SX28881
10 Mar 1943:	Involvement Corporal, S45768
10 Mar 1943:	Enlisted Woodside, SA
10 Mar 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX28881
7 Sep 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX28881, 4th Anti Malaria Control Unit, embarked Brisbane for Port Moresby on board HMT Henry T Allen
27 Jul 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, SX28881, embarked Port Moresby for Townsville on board Ormiston
3 Nov 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, SX28881, embarked Cairns for Aitape on board Duntroon
12 Feb 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX28881, 4th Anti Malaria Control Unit, embarked Wewak for Sydney on board Duntroon
19 Jun 1946:	Discharged
19 Jun 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, SX28881

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Kevin Bryan McMahon (Service Nos:S45768/SX28881) initially served in the ACMF as a Private attached to 3rd Australian Infantry Training Battalion (15 July 1942 - 9 March 1943), enlisting in the AIF on 10 March 1943. Private McMahan served with 2/4th Anti Malaria Control Unit in New Guinea (7 September 1943 to 27 July 1944) and was a Lance Corporal when he embarked with his Unit on 3 November 1944 from Cairns for Aitape on board the Duntroon. Promoted to Corporal, he was attached to 2/7 and 2/2 Field Ambulance, embarking from Weewak for Sydney on 12 February 1946 on board the Duntroon. Corporal McMahan was attached to 2/4 Anti Malaria Contol Unit at Discharge on 19 July 1946.

Born in Port Pirie, South Australia in 1923, Kevin was eldest of four children of Kevin Bryan McMahon (b1898 in Adelaide, South Australia) and Constance Mary Brown (b1902 at Port Pirie, South Australia). Kevin Snr and Constance married in 1921 at Port Pirie, where they lived until moving to Adelaide in the mid 1920s. Kevin Snr was a Travelling Salesman.

Kevin was working in Adelaide as a Stage Performer and Small Good Salesman in 1942 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, Kevin was in Hindmarsh in 1947 when he married Bridget Muriel Joraslafsky (b1928 in Adelaide, South Australia). Kevin died in 1993 and Brisget in 2002.

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