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QUINLAN, Edward Ernest
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 425216 |
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Enlisted: | 15 March 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | No. 454 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Brisbane, Qld., 15 April 1915 |
Home Town: | Rosalie Plains, Toowoomba, Queensland |
Schooling: | Brisbane Boy's School |
Occupation: | Solicitor |
Died: | Flying Battle, Aegean Sea, 1 June 1944, aged 29 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
Memorials: | Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Edward Ernest and Jane Edith Quinlan; husband of Hazel Quinlan, of Rosalie, Queensland
Teddy was with the Brisbane Boy's School for eight years 1924-1931 abd was a practising solicotr with his father before he joined up with the R.A.A.F. and in July last was reported as Missing in the Middle East. He was on a reconnanissance flight, and there are many chances that he is safe somewhere in those island studded seas.