BOLCK, Graham
| Service Number: | Q55362 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 15 Garrison Battalion (QLD) |
| Born: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 8 December 1908 |
| Home Town: | Mackay, Mackay, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Bli Bli, Queensland, Australia, 5 November 2003, aged 94 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 17 Apr 1942: | Involvement Lance Corporal, Q55362 | |
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| 17 Apr 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 17 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, Q55362, 15 Garrison Battalion (QLD) | |
| 28 Sep 1943: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, 15 Garrison Battalion (QLD) | |
| 22 Jul 1944: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, 1 Garrison Battalion (QLD) | |
| 7 May 1945: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Bombardier, 15 Garrison Battalion (QLD) | |
| 10 May 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, Q55362, 15 Garrison Battalion (QLD) | |
| 10 May 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal Graham Bolck (Service No:Q55362) enlisted in the ACMF on 17 April 1942 as a Private with 15 Garrison Battalion. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 28 September 1943 and served with 1 Garrison Battalion before rejoining 15 Garrison Battalion for Discharge (Essential Industry - Sugar) on 10 May 1945.
Born in 1908 in Rockhampton QLD, Graham was the eldest of four children of Johann (John Henry) Heinrich Bolck (b1870 in Kisdorf, Germany) and Ethel Daphne Phillips (b1880 in London, England). John had immigrated with his parents in 1871, arriving at Keppel Bay, QLD as Assisted Immigrants on board the Lammershagen and Ethel had immigrated with her widowed mother in the mid 1880s, settling in Brisbane QLD where her mother remarried. John (a Labourer) and Ethel (a Book Binder) married in 1909 in Rockhampton, QLD and lived at Bajool where John was a Ganger until the 1930s when the family moved to Yeppoon, QLD and John worked as a Labourer.
Graham worked as a Farmhand in Keppel and was a Labourer at Mt Pelion via Mackay in 1940 when he married Ethel May Senini (b1920 in Mackay, QLD). Graham and Ethel were living at Mt Pelion where Graham was unemployed in 1942 when he enlisted in the ACMF. They settled in Mackay where Graham was a Storeman and a Farmer. By 1967 Graham and Ethel had moved to Melbourne, Victoria where Graham was working as a Tradesman's Assistant and Ethel as a Ward Assistant. Graham died in Bli Bli, QLD in 2003.
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