Harold Stanley QUINE

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QUINE, Harold Stanley

Service Number:	QX19512
Enlisted:	2 June 1941
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/31st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ravenswood, Queensland, Australia, 21 September 1910
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Newmarket State School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Brick Burner
Died:	Died of wounds, Balikpapan, Borneo, 10 July 1945, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Labuan War Cemetery 18. C. 8.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Corporal, QX19512
2 Jun 1941:	Enlisted
2 Jun 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, QX19512, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion
16 Mar 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX19512, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion, ex Suez to Brisbane per USS Mt Vernon
18 Aug 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX19512, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion, for Suez
23 Aug 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX19512, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion, ex Townsville to Port Moresby per Katoomba en route for Borneo
18 Sep 1944:	Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion
20 Feb 1945:	Wounded Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, QX19512, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion, Penetrating Bullet Wound to chest - died of wounds 10 July 1945. Originally buried at Balikapan
10 Jul 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Harold Stanley Quine (Service No:19512) enlisted in the Army as a Private with 11 Training Battalion on 2 June 1941 and was posted to 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion on 11 September 1941. Private Quine served in Egypt and New Guinea before embarking for Balikapan, Borneo (via Port Moresby) on 23 July 1943. He was promoted to Corporal on 18 September 1944 and was WiA at Balikapan (a penetrating bullet wound to the chest) on 20 February 1945. Corporal Quine Died of Wounds on 10 July 1945 and was first buried at Balikapan.

Born at Ravenswood QLD in 1910, Harry was the eldest 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 Cloncurry, Ravensthorpe and the Northern Territory before settling in Brisbane where Stanley was a Labourer.

Harry worked as a Labourer and Brick Burner in Brisbane before his senlistment in the Army.

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