BAIN, Doreen
| Service Numbers: | Q271514, QF271514 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 June 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 18 May 1921 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, 2 October 2000, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Innes Gardens Memorial Park, New South Wales, Australia Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, New South Wales, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 30 Jun 1943: | Involvement Lance Corporal, Q271514, on WW2NR as QF271514 | |
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| 30 Jun 1943: | Enlisted | |
| 30 Jun 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, QF271514 | |
| 21 Nov 1944: | Discharged | |
| 21 Nov 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, QF271514 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Doreen was the second of three children of James Bashford Bain (born 1893 in Ipswich, QLD) and Eva Mary Yates (born 1895 in Ipswich, QLD). James (a Clerk) and Eva married in Booval, Ipswich, QLD in 1918 and lived in Brisbane and Ipswich.
In 1943 Doreen was a Clerk living in Brisbane, QLD when she enlisted in the ACMF. She was a Lance Corporal (Service No:QF271514) attached to Australian Army Womens' Service Barrack when she was Discharged in November 1944. In October 1944 Doreen married Douglas James Hardie (Private; QX12515).
Doreen and Doug settled in Brisbane, QLD before moving to Port MacQuarrie, NSW where Doreen died in 2000 and Doug in 2012.
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