Max ARNOLD

ARNOLD, Max

Service Numbers: QX46009, Q116441
Enlisted: 18 December 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 11 Field Regiment AMF
Born: Mareeba, Queensland, Australia, 13 January 1922
Home Town: Cairns, Cairns, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
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World War 2 Service

18 Dec 1941: Involvement Gunner, Q116441, also QX46009
18 Dec 1941: Involvement Gunner, QX46009, also Q116441
18 Dec 1941: Enlisted
18 Dec 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX46009, 11 Field Regiment AMF
22 Feb 1943: Discharged
22 Dec 1943: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX46009, 11 Field Regiment AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Max was the youngest of six children of Louis Harold Arnold (born 1874 in Bombala, NSW) and Henrietta Violet Bollman (born 1878 in Glebe, NSW). Louis and Henrietta married at Eden in NSW in 1900 and moved to Cairns in QLD in 1908 on board the SS Wodonga with their three children. The family lived in Atherton and Mareebain before settling in Cairns where Louis worked as a Land Ranger.

Max married Lorna Edna Fry (born 1924 in Cairns, QLD) in December 1940 in Cairns, and in December 1941 he enlisted with the Australian Army, serving as a Gunner (Service Nos: Q116441/QX46009) with 11 Field Regiment. Brothers-in-Law - Christopher James Fry (Service No: Q143301), Stanley Phillip Fry (Service No: Q116397), Harold Herbert Bird (Service No: 1766) and Alan Vernon Dickfos (Service Nos: Q122294/QX49525) also served in WWII.

Discharged in December 1943, Max and Lorna settled in Cairns where Max was a Labourer. In 1946, he and wife Lorna were Best Man and Matron of Honoor at the wedding of Myrtle Fry and Alan Vernon Dickfos.

Max was working as a Glazier in 1954 when wife Lorna died at Aeroglen in Cairns. He continued to live in Cairns, working at the sawmill until the mid 1970s when he moved to Charters Towers, where he worked as an Assistant Sampler at the Greenvale Nicklel Mine. According to Sam Arnold, Max was 'a tough man and an excellent bushman. He died in Cairns (around 2012) in the company of his best friend and brother Gus'. 

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