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QUINN, George Urban

Service Number:	SX11084
Enlisted:	27 January 1941, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/24th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Birkenhead, South Australia , 17 January 1919
Home Town:	Birkenhead, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Le Fevre Peninsula School, South Australia
Occupation:	Leather Worker
Died:	Killed in Action, Egypt, 22 July 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Alamein Memorial, Column 91,
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

27 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Private, SX11084, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia as 4th Reinforcement for 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion 2nd A.I.F.
27 Jan 1941:	Involvement Corporal, SX11084, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion
27 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
27 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Private, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion
27 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, SX11084, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion
14 May 1941:	Embarked Private, SX11084, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion, Disembarked in Middle East at Dimra as reinforcement for 2nd/48 Infantry Battalion.
31 Jul 1941:	Transferred Private, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion, Taken on Strength to new unit, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion at Dimra, Middle East.
21 Oct 1941:	Promoted Lance Corporal, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion, Promoted at Dimra, Middle East.
13 Apr 1942:	Promoted Corporal, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion, Rank of Corporal confirmed, Dimra, Egypt.
22 Jul 1942:	Wounded Corporal, SX11084, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion, El Alamein, Killed in Action fighting with his unit in Egypt.
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

His brother Lieutenant Robert Berrima (Bob) Quinn MM survived the war