BOLTON, Firth Redfern
Service Number: | Q270472 |
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Enlisted: | 15 August 1940 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
Born: | CAIRNS, QLD, 19 January 1917 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
15 Aug 1940: | Involvement Sapper, Q270472 | |
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15 Aug 1940: | Enlisted | |
15 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q270472 | |
11 Apr 1946: | Discharged | |
11 Apr 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q270472 |
Firth Redfern Bolton
Firth was born in Cairns, and lived at 32 Lovern Street, and went to Cairns Central School, then to Parramatta state school Cairns, when it opened.
He lived in Cairns all of his life and met Ella Winifred Jennings while in the Amy in Sydney. They married in Bibenluke in September 1945. After his discharge they moved up to Cairns North Queensland with their daughter Lorraine and spent most of their days there, moving to Mackay in 1970 for work and spent 20 years there before moving back to Cairns in 1990.
Submitted 4 January 2023 by Dian Hill