QUINE, Neville
| Service Number: | Q28018 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 23 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 61 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 24 February 1918 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Newmarket State School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Wynnum, Queensland, Australia, 29 November 1997, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Great Southern Memorial Park Cemetery and Crematorium |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 23 Aug 1940: | Involvement Private, Q28018 | |
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| 23 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q28018, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
| 30 Jul 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q28018, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Townsville to Port Moresby per Swartenorndt | |
| 18 Jul 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q28018, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Port Moresby per Katoomba to Townsville | |
| 29 Jul 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q28018, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Cairns to Madang per Katoomba | |
| 20 Nov 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q28018, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, ex New Guinea per Cape Victory to Torokina, Bougainville | |
| 4 May 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q28018, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Bougainville to Townsville per Taroom | |
| 15 Jul 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q28018, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Brisbane to Torokina per Gorgon | |
| 18 Nov 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q28018, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF, ex Torokina to to Brisbane per Westralia | |
| 15 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q28018, 61 Infantry Battalion AMF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Eldred Neville Quine (Service No:Q28018) enlisted in the ACMF on 23 August 1940, serving with 61st Infantry Battalion AMF (QLD Cameron Highlanders) in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Private Quine was Discharged on 15 January 1946. Older brothers - Harold Stanley (Corporal; Service No:QX19512) and Aubrey Howard (Corporal; Service Nos:QX28008/Q144106) also served in WWII.
Born in 1918 in Darwin NT, Neville was the youngest of four children of Stanley Tynald Quine (b1882 in QLD) and Florence Jane Deans (b1892 in QLD). Stanley (a Blacksmith with the Railways) and Florence married in 1909 in Cloncurry, QLD and lived in Ravensthorpe, Charleville and the Northern Territory before settling in Brisbane in the 1920s, where Stanley was a Labourer.
Neville was a Labourer in Brisbane before enlisting in the Army. In 1948 he married Joyce Duckworth (b1926 in Lancashire, England) - Joyce arrived in Brisbane QLD in 1927 with her parents on board the Themistocles. Neville and Joyce settled in Brisbane where Neville was a Labourer before moving to Tingalpa in the early 1950s, where Neville was a Truck Driver. Neville died in 1997 and Joyce in 1998.
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