BOATWRIGHT, Douglas Hawthorne
| Service Numbers: | QX59008, Q107409 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 October 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 9 April 1907 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 14 March 1974, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: | Ipswich Soldier's Memorial Hall WW2, Queensland Garden of Remembrance (Pinnaroo), Qld |
World War 2 Service
| 14 Oct 1943: | Involvement Sapper, Q107409, also QX59008 | |
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| 14 Oct 1943: | Involvement Sapper, QX59008, also Q107409 | |
| 14 Oct 1943: | Enlisted | |
| 14 Oct 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX59008 | |
| 25 May 1944: | Discharged | |
| 25 May 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX59008 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Douglas was the third of six children of Albert Ernest Boatwright (b1880 in Ipswich, QLD) and Ann (Annie) Molloy (b1875 in Dalby, QLD). Albert (a Labourer) and Annie married in 1900 in Ipswich, QLD where they settled and raised their family.
Douglas worked as a Clerk in Ipswich, QLD and in 1942 married Thelma Lillian Spokan (b1922 in Ipswich, QLD) in 1942 in Ipswich. Douglas enlisted in the Australian Army in October 1943 and was a Sapper (Service Nos:QX59008/Q107409) attached to 2 Field Coy RAE when he was Discharged in May 1944.
In 1945 Douglas and Thelma Divorced, and both remarried. In 1946 Douglas was working as a Labourer when he married Doreen May Booth (b1926) in Ipswich. The couple had separated by 1949 and Douglas married Mabel Titmarsh (nee Pokarier; b1911 in Boonah, Ipswich, QLD) in 1954 in Ipswich, QLD. Douglas worked as a Boliermaker's Assistant and Railways Employee. Mabel died in 1971 and Douglas in 1974.
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