REYNOLDS, Patrick
| Service Numbers: | Q103443, Q103443, |
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| Enlisted: | 20 May 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 49 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 27 October 1918 |
| Home Town: | Roma, Maranoa, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Highfields State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Dam Sinker |
| Died: | Illness, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 7 August 1942, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Cairns War Cemetery, Queensland Plot A. Row A. Grave 2. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, Q103443, Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit | |
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| 20 May 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 20 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q103443, 49 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
| 1 Dec 1941: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, Q103443,, 49 Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked for Port Moresby | |
| 12 Jul 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Q103443, 49 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
| 7 Aug 1942: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of James and Mary Ellen Reynolds, of Highfields.
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Patrick Reynolds (Service No:Q103433) enlisted in the ACMF on 20 May 1941 as a Signalman attached to 25 Battalion. Private Reynolds was attached to 49th Battalion on 2 December 1941 when he embarked with his Unit for Port Moresby, where he contracted Malaria and embarked for the return to Cairns on 12 July 1942. Hospitalised in Cairns, Private Reynolds was attached to 49th Battalion when he died of illness on 7 August 1942. His mother's request for his body to be transported to Toowoomba for burial was refused, and Private Reynolds was buried at Cairns War Cemetery.
Cornelius (Pat) Patrick Reynolds was born in Toowoomba, QLD in 1918, seventh of eight children of James Reynolds (b1873 in Toowoomba, QLD) and Mary (Ellie) Ellen Collins (b1877 at Cabarlah via Toowoomba, QLD). James (a Labourer) and Ellie married in 1902, and settled in the region where they raised their family and James was a Labourer.
Pat was working in Roma as a Dam Sinker in 1941 - the year he enlisted in the ACMF and married Olive Dorothy Thrupp (b1922 in Roma, QLD). Following Pat's death, Olive remarried.
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