Geoffrey Harrison BISHOP

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BISHOP, Geoffrey Harrison

Service Numbers:	Q148086, QX49737
Enlisted:	22 May 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/3rd Commando Squadron
Born:	Sandgate, Queensland, Australia , 18 March 1924
Home Town:	Ipswich, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shop Assistant
Died:	Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 14 December 2001, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Ipswich Soldier's Memorial Hall WW2

World War 2 Service

7 Mar 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, Q148086, 29th Infantry Battalion
22 May 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, Q148086, 29th Infantry Battalion
17 Mar 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, Q148086, 29 Infantry Training Battalion
18 Mar 1943:	Involvement Trooper, Q148086, also QX49737
18 Mar 1943:	Involvement Trooper, QX49737, also Q148086
18 Mar 1943:	Enlisted
18 Mar 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX49737
13 Jul 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX49737, 2nd/3rd Commando Squadron, ex Townsville to Morotai per General Anderson
6 Aug 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX49737, 2nd/3rd Commando Squadron, ex Morotai to Balikapan per Westralia
10 Jan 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Trooper, QX49737, 2nd/3rd Commando Squadron, ex Balikapan to Brisbane per Stamford Victory
18 Jan 1946:	Discharged
18 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX49737

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Geoffrey was the eldest of three children of Ernest Bishop (b1891 in Ipswich, QLD) and Margaret Gertrude Long (b1891 in Brisbane, QLD). Ernest (a Dyer) and Margaret (a Shop Assistant) married in 1915 in Brisbane, QLD. The family lived in Brisbane and Sandgate before moving to Ipswich, QLD in the 1930s, where Ernest worked as a Laundryman.

Geoffrey was a Shop Assistant in Ipswich in 1939 when he enlisted in the ACMF (Lance Corporal; Service No:Q148086) and was attached to 29 Infantry Training Brigade when he was Discharged on 7 March 1943. He then served with 2/3 Commando Squadron from 18 March 1943 (Trooper; Service No:QX49737) and was in Borneo from 2 June 1945 to 10 January 1946. He was Discharged on 18 January 1946.

Geoffrey returned to Ipswich and was working as a Carpenter in 1949 when he married Lola Edith Holland (b1924 in Ipswich, QLD) - Lola worked as a Waitress. In 1958 Geoffrey and Lola moved to Mackay, QLD where Geoffrey worked as a Teacher. Following Lola's death in 1972 Geoffrey remarried. He died in 2001.

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