William Rennie (Bill) ALLAN

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ALLAN, William Rennie

Service Numbers:	Q76431, QX22176
Enlisted:	20 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/31st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bundamba, Queensland, Australia, 3 May 1915
Home Town:	Bundamba, Ipswich, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 25 May 1973, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld
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World War 2 Service

20 Mar 1941:	Involvement Private, Q76431, also QX22176
20 Mar 1941:	Involvement QX22176, also Q76431
20 Mar 1941:	Enlisted
20 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX22176, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion
12 Mar 1946:	Discharged
12 Mar 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX22176, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private William Rennie Allan (Service Nos:QX12276/Q76431) enlisted in the Australian Army in March 1941 and served in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo. He was attached to 2/31st Infantry Battalion when he Discharged in March 1946.

Born in 1915 in Ebbw Vale in Ipswich QLD, Bill was the third of four children of James Allan (b1887 in Lanarkshire, Scotland) and Mary McDonald Wood Rennie (b1884 in Edinburgh, Scotland). James (a Coal Miner) and Mary (a Shirt Machinist) married in 1909 in Scotland and emigrated in 1912, arriving in Brisbane, QLD with their first child on board the Waipara. The family settled in Ipswich where James was a Coal Miner. James served in WWI (Service No:2)

Bill was a Labourer in Bundanba, Ipswich QLD, and in July 1946 ( following his Discharge in March 1946) in Ipswich QLD married Freda Joan Morris (b1928 in Ipswich, QLD). Bill and Freda settled in Ipswich - Bill worked as a Check Weightman in Booval before moving to Bundamba where he worked as a Clerk. Bill died in 1973 and Freda in 2016.

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