George BANNISTER

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BANNISTER, George

Service Number:	QX2907
Enlisted:	13 May 1940
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	2nd/15th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 5 April 1915
Home Town:	Mackay, Mackay, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Ganger
Died:	Killed in Action, Egypt, 1 September 1942, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	El Alamein War Cemetery A II A 6
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, East Mackay Rats of Tobruk Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Lieutenant, QX2907
13 May 1940:	Enlisted
13 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, QX2907, 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion, Rockhampton, Qld.
1 Sep 1942:	Discharged
1 Sep 1942:	Discharged Lieutenant, QX2907, 2nd/15th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of George Edmund and Edith Nora Bannister, of Red Hill, Queensland, Australia.

RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL IN PERFECT PEACE HE AWAITS US ALL

News has been received by Mr and Mrs G. E. Bannister, 161 Annie Street, New Farm (formerly of Mackay), that their eldest son, Lieutenant George Bannister (27) was killed in action. He enlisted at the commencement of the war, was posted overseas on Christmas Day, 1940, and saw service in Syria
and Egypt.

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